The landscape of this dark and powerful story is the ancient world of Assyria some 3000 years ago, a time when writing was in the world's oldest script, cuneiform, and the domination of unseen forces firmly in the hands of the state's...

The First Ghosts von Finkel, Irving

A compelling investigation of one of the most famous myths in the world, that of the great flood and Noah's Ark, and how the rediscovery of an ancient tablet challenges our view of ancient history in a new and exciting way. A Channel 4...

The First Ghosts von Finkel, Irving

Ancient Assyria 3000 years ago plays host to a story of the state's leading exorcist turning psychopathic killer against a context of the early development of writing in its cuneiform incarnation, drawing engagingly on the author's...