The man in the center with the full white beard is Mr. Finkel, an expert on cuneiform writing. The British Museum has 130,000 cuneiform clay tablets waiting to be deciphered. Finkel has a clay tablet ...

Irving Finkel, curator in charge of cuneiform clay tablets at the British Museum, poses with the 4000 year old clay tablet containing the story of the Ark and the flood during the launch of his book ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as the ...

With Russell Crowe steering Hollywood’s latest version of the Noah’s Ark tale into theaters this week, what better time than to pose some philosophical questions. Such as why didn’t the leopards eat ...

It was a vast boat that saved two of each animal and a handful of humans from a catastrophic flood. But forget all those images of a long vessel with a pointy bow -- the original Noah's Ark, new ...

As Scott Franklin, producer of the Russell Crowe epic, Noah, has pointed out, the story of the flood "is a very short section of the Bible with a lot of gaps". But was the story of the flood original ...

1, Looking backwards and forwards -- 2. Going to school -- 3. Who used cuneiform writing? -- 4. How do we understand it, anyway? -- 5. The scribe revealed -- 6. What happened to cuneiform? -- 7. How ...

Four thousand years ago, a millennium and a half before the first Jewish scholars put pen to parchment on the Book of Genesis, a scribe in what is now Iraq carved the story of a great flood on to a ...

Michael Berkeley is joined by assyriologist Irving Finkel. His musical choices include string quartets by Schubert and Dvorak, 1930s blues and Jimi Hendrix. Show more Assyriologist Irving Finkel talks ...