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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 »
I came across the first volume, Hell, a few years back in an Oxfam bookstore and thought I’d give it a go. I had a vague idea it had something to do with the layers of hell, moving through them. I soon found that I needed my own guide to understand this book. Mine was... Read More »
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