# Quote — Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah

> ! The world's oldest and hardest writing, older by far than any alphabet, written by long-dead Sumerians and Babylonians over more than three thousand years, and as extinct by the time of the Romans as any dinosaur. What a challenge! What an adventure!

- Author: [Irving Finkel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/irving-finkel.md)
- Book: [The Ark Before Noah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/irving-finkel/the-ark-before-noah.md)
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> 's discoveries led to unease in more than one quarter. It was simply bizarre that a close relative of Holy Writ should emanate from such a primitive, barbaric world through so improbable a medium, to thrust itself uncompromisingly into public consciousness. How could Noah and his Ark possibly been known and important to the Assyrians of noble and the Babylonians of mad, dread ? Worried people over garden fences and in church pews clamoured to have important questions answered.

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