Whilst we're talking the fragments of Babylon, or the disasters which the Muslims visited upon Assyria; earlier than either, the Babylons came to the library of Assyria. They found tablets they could read. It looks like they smashed what they couldn't carry.
So claims Irving Finkel anyway.
Personally I think Dr Finkel has earned up a great store of credit to his scholarship, which (say) Graham Hancock has not. I couldn't think of anything bad to say of his theory of Noah's Coracle anyway, at least in its Iraqi Marsh form which assuredly contributed to Genesis 6-7. (Although the meme of Ararat is assuredly more Assyrian.) Finkel's theory that the Babylonians would have taken a lot of their literature "back" down-stream smells right to me.
Smelling a good deal less good is his take on Göbekli, because like assholes everybody has to have one, I guess. I should be more careful around there. Around Göbekli I mean.
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