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 ...

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 ...

Irving Finkel of the British Museum explains why we still have thousands of texts written between five and two thousand years ago and the people and the ideas they reveal Show more A pre-Prom audience ...

In the second AMME seminar of the fall semester, we celebrated the Rosetta Stone bicentennial with two presentations on deciphering ancient scripts. The presentations by Dr. Thomas Christiansen ...