A fascinating insight from Dr Irving Finkel curator of The British Museum since 1979. This is not about my Linear B study but about cuneiform clay tablets which never the less I found interesting.
Irving Finkel, curator, British Museum
I’ve just come from the press conference launching my new book, The Ark Before Noah. As I told the journalists, it all started with a fairly normal event for a museum curator: a member of the public bringing in an object that had long been in their family to have it identified. As often happens in my case, it was a cuneiform tablet. The visitor, Douglas Simmonds, had been given it by his father for passing his exams. It was part of a modest collection: a few tablets, some cylinder seals, a lamp or two and some pieces from China and Egypt. His father, an inveterate curio hunter, had picked them up after the War in the late 1940s.
With kind permission of Douglas Simmonds
This tablet, however, turned out to be one in a million. The cuneiform was a sixty-line passage from the…
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