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Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel

Why it was recommended

Highly recommend Prof Irving Fink's talk to Royal Institution on the 3,000 year development of cuneiform

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What it covers

Irving Finkel of the British Museum lectures at the Royal Institution on the invention and decipherment of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, and why it is so hard to. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel
The Royal Institution
Length
38 min 55 sec
Year
2019
Open on YouTube

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