What Irving Finkel thinks about China

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Assyriologist at the British Museum, curator in charge of its cuneiform tablet collection, where he has worked for over forty-five years.

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1. 12 Dec 2025

   Our readingThe flood stories of the world are not the memory of one global cataclysm.

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   Their wordsBut I do believe that the story in Mesopotamia owes its inception to a disastrous flood, but nothing global. Nothing that touched America or China or Birmingham.

   ↗Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487youtube.com 22nd of 27 in this recording