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Tour of the British Museum: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN RELIGION

Held at the British Museum: Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 3DG Dr Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of the Ancient Mesopotamian script, language and cultures department in the British Museum. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection - some 130,000 pieces - of any modern museum. This tour will take the form of a wander through the Ancient Mesopotamian galleries at the British Museum with Dr Finkel, looking at a variety of evidence that bears on the religion of the Sumerians and the Babylonians. It will consider which features are characteristic of that culture and which might be readily paralleled elsewhere. There will be an attempt to look at the scribes and writers of these ancient documents as once living people rather than rigid waxworks. ADVANCED BOOKING ESSENTIAL ONLY 15 PLACES AVAILABLE We will meet at the foyer of the main British Museum enterance. Admission into the British Museum is free - however a donation of £5 is reccommended - admission is not included in the price.
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College of Psychic Studies - The College was founded in 1884 by a group of eminent scholars and scientists. Its purpose was to facilitate formal investigation into the psychic and mediumistic phenomena that were such a topic of debate in the Victorian era. With great courage, this group of distinguished people, some notable in science, others from within the ranks of the Anglican clergy, defied the prevailing canons of respectability in order to proclaim to a world of increasing materialism that human personality survives bodily death and that this is capable of demonstration.

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