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There are many similar ones, but I like this one from The British Museum the most, because of the teacher: "Irving Finkel teaches how to write cuneiform I Cura
by nosianu 3y ago
There are many similar ones, but I like this one from The British Museum the most, because of the teacher:
"Irving Finkel teaches how to write cuneiform I Curator's Corner Season 4 Episode 8 #CuratorsCorner"
Who is he:
> Irving Leonard Finkel is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.
It's short enough for an introduction, funny and entertaining, and broad enough, with some sprinkling of information that gives an idea of the complexities of the language too, not just the cuneiform itself. An Assyrian name like "Ashurbanipal" is really complex, apparently, with three parts, one part written in Sumerian but not using their word and pronunciation and ignoring that one could have written it using syllables from Assyrian... it's quite messy. That can be ignored for the purpose behind the submitted website, but I think anyone who wants to know a bit more about cuneiform probably wants it to be in the context of when and how that writing system was used, together with the language.
https://youtu.be/XVmsfL5LG90 https://youtu.be/XVmsfL5LG90
- yreg 3y agoIrving Finkel made a video with Tom Scott, playing the game of Ur. I enjoyed the interaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I I'm sure he has many other even better videos, but I will have to yet get to them.
- KaiserPro 3y agohe has written and more importantly narrated two brilliant books: the ark before noah, and the first ghosts. It is critical that you listen to him reading them, because he has a certain infectious enthusiasm for what he is saying.