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Irving Finkel
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Irving Leonard Finkel 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.
Across 1 conversation, Irving Finkel ranges across cuneiform, monotheism, Gobekli Tepe. Irving Finkel argues that Gobekli Tepe artifacts indicate a writing system 7,000 years earlier than believed. The Ark Tablet, dating back to 1700 BC, contains a flood narrative predating the biblical Noah story by a millennium.
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previewFinkel suggests that Gobekli Tepe's round green stone with hieroglyphic signs indicates a writing system as early as 9000 BC, predating known Mesopotamian systems.
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The Ark Tablet describes a round boat for surviving a flood, contrasting with the biblical coffin-shaped ark, suggesting different cultural interpretations of the same myth.
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Finkel argues that the complexity of cuneiform required memorization of multiple sign values, highlighting the intellectual demands on ancient scholars.
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