Irving Finkel

Irving Finkel is a curator in the Department of the Ancient Near East in the British Museum in London. There he reads cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, the oldest writing in the world.
Irving Finkel is a man of many and varied interests. In the Museum, surrounded by ancient inscriptions, he works on ancient magic, medicine, secret writings and traditional stories like Gilgamesh.. One of his favourite tasks as a curator is teaching children (and sometimes their parents) how to write their names in cuneiform signs on pieces of plasticine. He also is very interested in the history of board games, ancient and modern, and has started several investigations around the world to rescue traditional games before they disappear altogether, and has written books and articles about games of this kind. He is the author of several books for children including The Lewis Chessmen, and What Happened to Them and The Hero King Gilgamesh, as well as the Incredible Writing Box (with Oliver Moore), which explains how to spell English words and sentences in ancient Babylonian, ancient Egyptian and Chinese.
Irving is married and the father of five children.

Books
Alfred and the Pirates













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