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Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is an English philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum , where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia .
Finkel said the scaled-down version of the ark is just large enough to accommodate a few pairs of ‘well behaved animals’. However, Dr Finkel did not think that the full-sized vessel would have been possible, having supervised the building of the smaller replica. This opinion was based on the boat's structural integrity as well as the vast ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Royal Game of Ur. One of the five gameboards found by Sir Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, now held in the British Museum [1] Years active. Earliest boards date to c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC [a] during the Early Dynastic III, being played popularly in the Middle East through late antiquity and in Kochi, India through the 1950s. Genres.
Although its precise rules are unknown, it has been termed the Game of 20 Squares and Irving Finkel has suggested a possible reconstruction. The Royal Game of Ur from 2600 BC may also be an ancestor or intermediate of modern-day table games like backgammon and is the oldest game for which rules have been handed down.
Archibald Sayce. Giovanni Semerano. Shin Shifra. Åke W. Sjöberg. George Smith (Assyriologist) Agnès Spycket. Matthew Stolper. Vasily Struve (historian) Saana Svärd.
University of Toronto. Johns Hopkins University. Birmingham University. École pratique des hautes études. British Museum. Doctoral students. Irving Finkel. Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
Wilfred G. Lambert. Stephen Herbert Langdon. Austen Henry Layard. William Loftus (archaeologist)