The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of five venues to host the U.S. tour of the famed Cyrus Cylinder, a 6th-century artifact discovered in 1879 among the ruins of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamia ...
If you were asked to describe how you think a curator of cuneiform tablets at the British Museum might look, you’d probably come up with an image very close to that of Dr Irving Finkel – bearded, ...