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"British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world authority on the period, Dr Finkel's enthralling real-life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museum - the arrival one day in 2008 of a single, modest-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet - the palm-sized clay rectangles on which our ancestors created...
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Based on his real-life work, here is Finkel's version of the ancient story of an ancient Babylonian man, Atra-hasis, as told through his son named Very-quick, when Atra-hasis is tasked with building a boat large enough to save all living things from a catastrophic flood. It is retold here in this fictionalized version of a flood recorded four thousand years before the Hebrew Bible story of Noah and the Ark that brings the lives of ancient Babylonians...
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