 | 'to Aleppo Gone ... ': Essays in Honour of Jonathan N. Tubb Irving Finkel is the senior curator responsible for the cuneiform tablet collection in the museum. He is a specialist in medical and magical works in Akkadian and particularly interested in esoteric inscriptions that concern ancient thought and speculation. He has been responsible for exhibitions inside and outside the museum, including Asian Games: The Art of Conquest (Asia Society New York, 2004) and Babylon: Myth and Reality (British Museum, 2008). He is the author of books for adults and children, including the bestselling The Ark before Noah , and is a world expert on ancient games and Founder of the Great Diary Project. James Fraser is Curator for the Ancient Levant and Anatolia (supported by HENI) at the British Museum. In 2018, the Palestine Exploration Fund published his monograph Dolmens in the Levant in its Annual series, and this book was awarded the G. Ernest Wright Award for Best Archaeological Publication. James directs a British Museum excavation project in Jordan investigating a 4,500 year-old olive oil factory at Khirbet Um al-Ghozlan in the Wadi ar-Rayyan. St John Simpson is responsible for the collections from Iran, Central Asia and Arabia, specialises in the archaeology of the Sasanian and early medieval periods, and has excavated extensively in the Middle East and Central Asia. He has curated three exhibitions at the museum, Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen (2004), Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World (2011) and Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia (2017/18), as well as the Rahim Irvani Gallery for Ancient Iran (2007). He was Jonathan's deputy for the Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Scheme (2015-2021), and has museum-wide responsibility for repatriation of trafficked antiquities to their countries of origin. |
