Museum related articles
It is wonderful to see the iconic building of the Natural History Museum as the nights draw in with the seasonal setting of the ice rink. Available from; 25th October-9th December. Spend a magical evening skating on the ice as the sun sets and the fairy lights take over. After you’ve been skating there’s a... Read More »
It was after watching Bettany Hugh’s program about Atlantis (BBC 2010) that I first came across the Assyriologist Irving Finkel. His enthusiasm and belief in Gilgamesh was the perfect match for Hugh’s belief that Thera (Santorini) was the place that Plato had been writing about. With his flowing grey beard he certainly looked the part.... Read More »
Continuing on from my last article about the British Museum. I came across two other names whilst reading Irving Finkle’s “The Ark Before Noah”. They were Henry Rawlinson and Austen Henry Layard. It reminded me of the story of Hormuzd Rassam and the Assyrian Lion Hunt reliefs. Layard was well-known for his archaeological finds in... Read More »
Back in 2010 one of my favourite programmes on the radio was Neil MacGregor’s iconic series “A History of the World in 100 objects”. It seemed to represent two of our institutions at their best. His calm but enthusiastic delivery would give you an informative background to the object. His clear delivery was enough to... Read More »
I recently bought a copy of Irving Finkle’s “The Ark Before Noah”. I heard him talk on Radio 4 about a member of the public handing a cuneiform tablet to the museum, revealing a new story about the ancient Babylonian story of the flood predating the biblical story and how it eventually came to be... Read More »
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