The Writing in The Stone
Published on 24. October 2017
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-1-909339-95-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the capital, Nineveh, there resides a deep and complex man, the power behind the King of the World. Faced with unforeseen disaster that threatens his authority, he emerges as a psychopathic killer.
The author uses his familiarity with ancient writings preserved in the world's museums to recreate a vanished world, where those who emerge from the shadows in ruthless pursuit of ultimate control reveal themselves to be disconcertingly human. The tight prose and graphic illustrations make this a gripping and unusual tale, that is not of this world, but oddly familiar.
The author uses his familiarity with ancient writings preserved in the world's museums to recreate a vanished world, where those who emerge from the shadows in ruthless pursuit of ultimate control reveal themselves to be disconcertingly human. The tight prose and graphic illustrations make this a gripping and unusual tale, that is not of this world, but oddly familiar.
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Edition
Special edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newport
United Kingdom
Edition type
Special edition
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 158 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909339-95-8 (9781909339958)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Irving Finkel, philologist and Assyriologist, is a spellbinding storyteller and a familiar figure in academic and literary circles. 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 reads cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. An expert on the history of board games, he is also the author of many children's books as well as the best-selling The Ark Before Noah, which recounts his discovery of a cuneiform tablet that contained a Flood narrative far older than the story of Noah and which led to the recreation of the ark for a 2014 TV documentary.