#487 - Irving Finkel

12 Dec 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #487:

1. The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in General, and on that of Behistun in Particular by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
2. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs by Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh
4. Book of Genesis

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. Wikipedia

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