The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the FloodIn The Ark Before Noah, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enables a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world authority on the period, Dr Finkel's enthralling real life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museumthe arrival one day in 2008 of a single, modest sized Babylonian cuneiform tabletthe palm sized clay rectangles on which our