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Dr Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of the Ancient Mesopotamian Artefacts at the British Museum.听In his book "The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the听Story of the Flood" (published by Hodder & Stoughton ISBN 9781444757057) he reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enables a听new interpretation of the Noah's Ark story.

Dr Finkel's real-life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museum - the arrival one day in 2008 of a single, modest-sized Babylonian coneiform tablet - the palm-sized clay rectables on which our ancestors created the first documents. It had been brought in by a member of the public and this particular tablet proved to be of quite extraordinary importance. Not only does it date from about 1850BC but it is a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia revealing among other things, instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood.

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The Right Reverend Lorna Hood is the current听Moderator听of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.听She began her career as a probationer assistant in St Ninian鈥檚 Corstorphine Church, Edinburgh, and was ordained there in 1978. For over twenty years she served as Chaplain in the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, where she pioneered the pastoral care of women who had suffered miscarriages or lost babies.

In 2010 she became one of ten Chaplains to The Queen in Scotland. She has been a General Trustee of the Church of Scotland since 2001.

This year she was听included in the Woman鈥檚 Hour 听鈥淧ower List鈥� of the top 100 most powerful women in the country.