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Cuneiform by Irving Finkel
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could... -
The Writing in the Stone by Irving Finkel
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.70In the capital, Nineveh, resides a deep and complex man, the power behind the King of the World. Faced with unforeseen disaster that threatens his authority, he emerges as a psychopathic killer.The... -
In Context: the Reade Festschrift by Irving Finkel
Booksplease Price: $161.43In Context: the Reade Festschrift is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975... -
Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts by Irving Finkel 9781606064474
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $39.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606064474Author Irving FinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Getty Conservation... -
The Last Resort Library by Irving Finkel 9781904999416
RRP: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31"The library is situated," said the short entry in the Guide to British Libraries A-L, "in pleasant rolling countryside not too far from Hereford, and is perhaps most readily accessible by private... -
The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator by Irving Finkel
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire... -
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $34.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804396Author Irving FinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel 9781444757088
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world... -
‘To Aleppo gone …’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb by Irving Finkel 9781803274706
Booksplease Price: $131.00To Aleppo Gone ... is a festschrift offered in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. It includes 44 contributions... -
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning for the Middle East by John Curtis 9780714111872
Booksplease Price: $73.58The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. Inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559 530BC) after he... -
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.45Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for... -
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.75Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for... -
Babylon: the Mother of All Cities by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781035416738
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38'A masterpiece' TRISTAN HUGHES'Engrossing and informative' DR. ERIC H. CLINE'Sweeps you up and carries you off like the River Tigris itself!' IRVING FINKELBabylon often appears more myth than history... -
Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian, with Original Texts Martin Worthington 9781473627802
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $66.26Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Babylonian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the...