The revelatory, unputdownable true story of how a British Museum expert decoded the Old Testament's Story of the Flood.'One of the most important human documents ever discovered . . . his conclusions will send ripples into the world of creationism and among ark hunters.' - Guardian'The charged thrill of Finkel's chase permeates the book - the pages don't just join dots, they supply new pieces for a beautiful, Bronze-Age jigsaw-puzz...

The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History RevealedThere are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very essence of what it is to be hu...

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 author uses his familiarity with ancient writings preserved in the world's museums to recreate a vanished world in which those who step from the shadows in ruthless violence to pursue ultimate control show themselves at the same time to be disconcertingly human.The tight prose and graphic illust...

La Bibliothèque des Refusés est un établissement des plus singuliers : elle recueille – plus encore, elle sauvegarde – tout texte ayant essuyé refus sur refus de la part des éditeurs. Littérature, poésie, mémoires, récits épistolaires… tous les écrits trouvent leur place sur les étagères de la Bibliothèque des Refusés. L’arrivée impromptue d’une insupportable bibliothécaire américaine, l’imposture d’une actrice se faisant passer pour une étudiante dans l’idée de voler des idées po...

The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History RevealedThere are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very essence of what it is to be hu...

The revelatory, unputdownable true story of how a British Museum expert decoded the Old Testament's Story of the Flood.'One of the most important human documents ever discovered . . . his conclusions will send ripples into the world of creationism and among ark hunters.' - Guardian'The charged thrill of Finkel's chase permeates the book - the pages don't just join dots, they supply new pieces for a beautiful, Bronze-Age jigsaw-puzz...

This catalogue makes available more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels kept in the British Museum. Most of them were excavated at Nineveh and other major sites in northern Iraq and Syria, and are presented here for the first time. They range in date from prehistory down to the Persian and Hellenistic periods; the bulk belong in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the Near East under Assyrian rule grew increasingly cosmopolitan. The collection includes luxury items made for p...

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 the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same traditin of game changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tom of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the c...