World’s foremost expert on the Cyrus Cylinder to speak at Yale Peabody Museum on May 1
Professor Irving Finkel to speak on Cyrus Cylinder
Yale Peabody Museum • 260 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511
May 1, 2024
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Cyrus Cylinder
Professor Irving Finkel, the Senior Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, will speak about the Cyrus Cylinder, one of the world’s most important artifacts connected to human rights, on May 1 at 6:30 pm.
Finkel’s talk will be the first ever held in the Yale Peabody Museum’s new Central Gallery. Tickets are available here.
Finkel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Cyrus Cylinder, will offer an illustrated lecture entitled Cyrus and his Cylinder: What was he Thinking?, describing the reality about King Cyrus’s cylinder, and explaining how progress in archeological research has widened our understanding of the man and his motives.
Finkel is a curator at the British Museum, in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection- some 130,000 pieces – of any modern museum. He specializes in ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic, and is also interested in literature, religion, and the history of ideas. He is also interested in the history of board games throughout the world. He is the best-selling author of The Ark Before Noah, which documents the newly translated tablet of the Babylonian story of the flood, which was recorded on clay tablets long before it was written down in the Hebrew Bible, proving it to be one of the world’s most ancient and lasting stories.
His lectures on cracking ancient codes, the Ark before Noah, and deciphering the world’s oldest rule book have been viewed about 7 million times.
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