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Fantastic, I had no idea there were multiple, complete copies!

It’s yet to Be deciphered don’t let dem fool you

To note that it is ONLY the "sacred" language hieroglyph. The pharoah of the past had different use in different areas of life, such a mathematics, science, biology.. (I'm using common day concepts here).. so that the "priests" could not learn the other practices. Information was compartmentalized for the pharoah alone. To assume we know "all" the hieroglyph meanings from this one huge "relief" in power over the land is to be pompous. I don't believe we have the ability to translate any of the ancient texts except as they turn into fairy tale stories instead of the serious topics they originally were preserved to be. Any knowledge the rulers laid down on stone, was for them, and them only to remain in genius power over the population they had groomed over millennia. It's a complicated mess. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love

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So that's where phaeton comes from.

One of my favorite books by my favorite author, J. I. M. Stewart a.k.a. Michael Innes, is "The Madonna of the Astrolabe," q.v.

Were those hemp tents the predecessors of modern day saunas?

Long live Assyria💪✌

Ugh. Exactly as expected, there are a lot of comments calling it too small, too light, too weak, or a childs toy. Those commenters clearly have no idea what they're talking about. It is precisely what you'd expect. A big and heavy shield is a slow shield and will tire you out in mere minutes. (Try going for a run holding a case of beer in your off hand at chest height. You won't last 5 minutes.) A Roman Scutum is big and heavy because it was used in static or slow formations. It's near useless in a quick skirmish. You want your shield to be about 60 to 80 cm long/wide, 3 to 12 mm thick and 3 to 4 kg. All it needs to do is deflect an opponent's weapon. The last thing you'd want is to absorb it. A shield does not need to survive the battle, you do. A broken shield can be discarded and replaced.

Are those mora knifes i see!?!??!

this was so boring my eyes actually crossed over

Question: what percent of the Egyptian population could read at that time ? Did the Egyptians write letters to each other?

Let the lady talk.

When are they returning it to Egypt ?

Has AI helped to decipher something new?

Zeus and Themis are the true masterminds of the Trojan War. They planned it to depopulate the earth using the greatest warrior (Achilles) and a beautiful daughter (Helen). They planned it to happen way before Eris is not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis and threw the golden apple of discord.

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Brilliant! Yes a great idea to remake the game. I was given the first BM replica over 50 years ago and we still enjoy playing it.

Trade = middlemen = ruination 😂😂😂😂

Love smart woman

it's absolutely absurd to call the " supreme luxury culture " as a totalitarian , Greeks were simply jealous of Persian's cultural supremacy and bureaucratic democratic system !

She’s obsessed with toffs. But she’s talking to Peter Snow? Hey, he’s not a real toff, from a proper old family, but his family have been prominent for a while, and his son married a Dukes daughter.

I wonder if 4,000 years from now our emojis and text messages will be just as difficult to decipher as the Egyptian hieroglyphs are for us today.

Could this shield be intended as a toy for children? Or as some kind of offering object? Because this shield does not seem suited at all for actual combat.

What a beast

The british museum, here eat some sausegaes with this

This whos puts a phat phinger onto some never seen for those eho cant afford suggest that doesnt deserve the job, doesnt underatand

this was really sad. letting elders in the community borrow back pieces of our culture from the people that stole it from us in cold blood. phew.

stolen, not “collected.”

How long would it have taken to construct the shield for a person with the correct skills? If it’s about a day’s worth of work I’ld say it’s a child’s toy or a young person’s first start to practice just like a wooden sword?

Absolutely beautiful.

This definitely makes a lot of sense. A bark shield is light and perfect for skirmish warfare, maybe someone running in and throwing javelins. It probably would have been used largely for parrying since it's light enough to swing around yet large enough to be a very useful surface for deflecting. Also that woven boss is really cool. People underestimate how resistant the right weave can be.

Irving you are a delight to listen to. Further to your request - Is there a new version of this wonderful game of UR that has been brought out since this video was made? If not, YES please , I would love to purchase a version if the BM could produce a new one! Note: please make accessible postage to Australia 🇦🇺 PPS Does the game still work when played upside down?

I love Persian history😍

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Didn't the Persians use wicker shields? How would this be any less effective? Also as someone has suggested, it might have been used as a training aid.

I wonder if it belonged to a child or adolescent for training? Or perhaps it was ceremonial such as the shields carried by the Zulu women and given to their husbands as part of a marriage ceremony? Fascinating.

Based on the size and that it was made out of bark I’m wondering if this was made as a kids toy

Dislike how she over reads into every detail. He was friend with a man in his 20s -> prob gay, saw it in a dream. "Yo bro let me know if you like this and i do the real version tomorrow" -> super vulnersbe. He makes a sketch of jesus because jesus was 99% of what was painted at the time -> spiritual turmoil. The sketch with thr least ammount of lines ever to draw a face -> this clearly means "[full ass sentence from the virgin mary to jesus]"

how the hell is modern society able to decipher ancient languages? presumptions combined with traces of said language remaining in its modern counterpart? always fascinated me

Look like it belonged to a child, or a vertically challenged adult.

Repatriation

Repatriation

Repatriation

It should really be referred to as the Bark-age

Huh, if the shield making didn't kill the tree, I wonder if there's still trees out there bearing these scars? Would there still be scars? I wonder if the bark that grows back would be smoother or too mutilated to cut again?

Why does the museum guy look like the guy who wrote Barbaric Comedies

Fantastic!!!!!

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So cool.