Your Sunday morning escape from Trump: read about one of the most wonderful men alive (Irving Finkel), explore the history of writing, and learn how to properly react to an astonishing cuneiform tablet:
"Smith’s astonishment and delight was so intense that he behaved as one should in all such matters. He boldly proclaimed: ‘I am the first man to read that after more than two thousand years of oblivion!’ and then proceeded, in ‘a great state of excitement,’ to undress himself."
The Mirthful Assyriologist, the Real Noah's Ark, and the Oldest Writing in the World
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Nov 17