Autor: Irving Finkel

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Some historical artfacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unerathing in today’s Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of t …

In 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 a …

In 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 …

‘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 Post’Marv …

To 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 invit …

Some historical artfacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unerathing in today’s Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of t …