Games of the Ancient World

Part of the Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series.
Like Spilt Milk: How Ancient Board Games Were Disseminated
Irving Finkel
Assistant Keeper, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum
Between Play and Rebirth: The Game of Hounds and Jackals
Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi
Hagop Kevorkian Research Associate, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, MMA
Moves in the Abstract: Chess Pieces of the Middle East
Anna Contadini
Reader in the Art and Archaeology of Islam, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
We thank the many friends of Charles K. Wilkinson and of The Metropolitan Museum of Art who have generously funded the lecture series.

[@YourMateNate3]

I like to fall asleep watching KZbin videos and woke up to this. SMH 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@afraidxmonsters]

SAMEEE

[@imyself8412]

Puts me right back asleep

[@eerokkitube]

Same

[@jimmydriveway]

Same

[@andanssas]

Not trying to interfere with your sleep routines, but check Andrew Huberman videos: studies have shown that any light before sleep (not just blue light) affects sleep effectiveness. It might be better to just hear the content... Have a nice sleep!

[@Subgenrelol]

POV: you fell asleep watching David P videos and woke up to this

[@JM-uw5mo]

9:45 if you get bored with introduction

[@beyondthecouch]

Woke up to it too and am thinking the aliens have something to do with it. Sending me a private message 🤣🤣🤣

[@feureau]

Lecture starts at 9:10

[@markp44288]

thank you

[@spacepirate-ninja9284]

You do God’s work!

[@lorenzoorourke1817]

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[@afterthestorm221]

Thanks!

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[@prairiestategenetixseeds9726]

Finkle is Gilgamesh... Gilgamesh is Finkle!!! Another awesome performance by this brilliant man

[@MegaBoilermaker]

The lecturer is doing very well to deliver this lecture in English. My compliments Madam.

[@UAPch]

This man is hilarious, delightful, witty, acerbic, a man above the information presented. The audience just barely laughs, completely unaware that they don’t have to be terminally bored just because they are listening to a museum guy talk about board games.

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[@wqmanawqke3375]

Had no idea this was a Finkel presentation!!! I'm totally fangirling. On the off chance of being peeky- I think Finkel NEEDS to be in the next Jumangi Movie.

[@midnitegremlin1345]

Great video- It's nice to see some serious work on the history of playing games with others. Too much is made online, especially You Tube, of people who enjoy playing with themselves.

[@kariannecrysler640]

During geometry class my friend and I played a similar game on our lined paper. 10 lines dotted 10 times. Connect the dots one bar per turn initial your completed squares, which could only be all four sides in your mark (pen vs. pencil) could get in two games in a half hour lol 😊

[@charlesrockafellor4200]

Between Dr. Finkel's opening observation of new players asking "What if...?" and the tale of Nicobar-chess, I'm reminded of an error of my own and a fun set of open-to-debate rules: 1) When I first ran into Conway's 23/3 Life, it was in Piers Anthony's "OX", and my copy had a skipped (empty) row in one of the illustrations. The rules weren't explicitly outlined therein (nor in an appendix), and I had no knowledge of where else to look. You can only imagine some of the quirky rules I conjectured to reverse engineer things from the patterns that were given. 2) The rules of "Thud" (from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series), and possibly "Koom Valley Thud" (I don't remember for sure) aren't 100% unambiguous and comprehensive. If you go through them and bump each against the next, or read the _exact_ wordings pedantically, you can come up with a number of variations to each (not precisely exploits, more like interpretations).

[@LordDice1]

It's cool to find someone else that did that

[@seankettyle5517]

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[@Pillowcase]

I've been binge watching Irving, one of my favorite historical presenters for sure.

[@marchill5628]

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[@julianalyman1422]

Did he he was in a tu y tu t’y

[@irvinggarcia221]

Thanks man 😂

[@bookeens]

Fascinating.

[@999across]

Starting at 9:00 unless you're fond of incessant intros.

[@sallylauper8222]

Yeah, detail over enthusiasm seems the rule.

[@winterbirds8022]

Thank you !😊

[@markp44288]

thank you

[@5Andysalive]

Love Finkels little dig at this fact.

[@ZZ-bi3kt]

I love this guy, so comical and so bright. And I love that his academia isn’t white-washed.

[@johnathanstucker4924]

Is this guy where they got stueys accent from?

[@hp0w3n92]

Very interested 🌲🎄

[@juliehovar5488]

Absolutely Brilliant presentation on diffusion and so much more. ManyThanks to all

[@msp420]

this is an amazing video. Thanks for sharing

[@sartocormier4118]

The met, the sphinx was a basenji before it get re carved! The basenji answer to the riddle has it have 4 paws, 2 at lunch, to smell the food and 3 in the afternoon has it's their watch turn and they can not go for a nap and to conserve their energy for when it is really needed! The spinx was watching the leo constellation, just like basenji were keeping a watch on lion to keep villages safe! The spinx is ready to strike! Go figure why there is plenty of dog at the Giza! Basenji are a pure breed and with the desert growing they must have move south to Congo! Basenji have curly tell like in the egyptian carving/pictures, a chacal is wild, basemji have primitive human's way, has in basic ways of beeing! The game your were talking about being like a dog also related to the sphinx, must have been a basenji too! ;) -A basenji owner p.s: On my picture it is my basenji!

[@SRHisnum1]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing and I love your beautiful dog.

[@danwatson8245]

Ihorne if finckle, finckle is ihorne. Ace venture

[@kellymcmanus150]

Fell asleep 🥱 to Graham Hancock and woke-up 😮 here @ 1:00:12. 😴

[@SRHisnum1]

This is so interesting. What excellent speakers and researchers!!! It amazing how they pieced together these games and figured out how they were played. It's nothing less than amazing. Thank you all so much. I am watching it again right after my first viewing of it I am enjoying it so much.

[@UAPch]

Thank you for being that way too.

[@MontanaMacLeod]

13:00 🕐 bookmarking for myself to show my dad

[@annechauvat3342]

This is so interesting! Thanks you so much to the speakers for giving these lectures, and to the MET for making them available!

[@eddiel1076]

Uhhh why is this in the Cavernous Cove playlist???

[@shrugmsm457]

Idk

[@enroseunwolvenrose6105]

it kinda looks like a cribbage board

[@haraldgundersen7303]

The Irving man is a wizard with great powers. Luckily for us he is only throwing the forces of humor and likeability out into the world or we might be doomed to a greater extent than currently is the case...

[@claudiaradusch6696]

Until 39.00 I really thought that there was no audience at all. How can it be that a group of people seems to be immune to a rhetorical genius like Irving Finkel. Maybe they had to sign a document promising not to laugh even when the lecturer is really funny before entering the hall. Strange.

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[@hiyo9144]

POV: You clicked on this video expecting it to be more engaging only to find it to be a snorefest

[@kennykimbrough4020]

49:35 yo i had no idea Pam from the office was in this

[@chadirwin1534]

I can't believe how people don't see it.

[@colinthomson5358]

Don't see it? What?

[@CristianDominguezReloaded]

So this was gaming in the ancient world

[@gchin1652]

Veri important

[@adamwalkervfx]

Cool, but how was Jumanji discovered?

[@jsinmcc92]

Jumanji discovers you not the other way around

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[@emilymcculloch8719]

Another brilliant show

[@6tring6]

Same

[@JamesS_]

is this the new cavernous cove monster?

[@sprauntthemythikalt254]

Yes

[@hughdennison3013]

Excellent lecture displaying the high standards of modern academia, well done Anna.

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[@onefeather2]

Audio is so low can't hear it.

[@c0smicc0re]

Why this on the Cavernous Cove playlist

[@svenhanson398]

I really miss a transcript

[@taraschumacker]

Starts at 9:30

[@laughingdog5201]

Checking in from 2020

[@never3care875]

Same but I suppose I deserve it because I fell asleep do history videos in the first place

[@carriestaker3856]

31:55 pachisi!

[@laurah1020]

I love Dr. Finkle!!!

[@keenbaker-dias1137]

Lead by example

[@gameon2553]

Why introduce someone to introduce someone and waste 9 minutes ? Just go straight to Irving Finkel...9:09

[@jackparsons390]

it must have been so difficult for these people living under the rule of the Anunnaki. From what I've heard Enil could be a real [expletive deleted] if he had a bug up his [expletive deleted].

[@midnitegremlin1345]

Did you [expletive deleted] those word yourself, or is You [expletive deleted] Tube doing that automatically? :D

[@jackparsons390]

@@midnitegremlin1345 only way to get the point across

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[@corticallarvae]

Grady McMurtry says hi Jack -

[@midnitegremlin1345]

@@corticallarvae #iseewhatyoudidthere !!!

[@goodshitl6720]

Jim I go for it 😹😹😹😹

[@histoiretraduite]

Anna Contadini is she the pvoice behind all those footages of megalith stones and temples. Stating that the anciens must have had lost technology and that somebody must have cancel or add centuries, milleniums to our history time Line? Is she that woman ? The tone of her voice is exactly the same.

[@multihullminion9201]

These aren’t simply games, they’re an illustrated representation of the torsion field, both that of the human body, the planet and many more

[@Ryan-fosho]

The earth is flat

[@multihullminion9201]

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[@Ryan-fosho]

@@multihullminion9201 hmm yes “planeet”

[@Lyndanet]

13:11 what a sweetheart

[@shrugmsm457]

Oooo i like this monster

[@sprauntthemythikalt254]

Same same

[@HxFxL]

Im confused on how i got here

[@ralphmalph6824]

Who else was diverted here while watching Robert Sepehr? TheMet is always a safe option for Zionism's KZbin.

[@DieterHageman]

I always start with knowing uall the rules... Hate starting without ...don't believe in house rules ... All Part of devolution

[@codyramos3200]

an that game will be called sticky mcshnickens

[@RickBoat]

Love Irving Finkel, even if no one laughed at his jokes.

[@prairiestategenetixseeds9726]

Tough crowd lol

[@Madferreiro]

Irving must be the best granpa in the world.

[@ktbaby5237]

I love his jokes!

[@MoritaJunichiro]

history junna junwa 👈🏻😹

[@cdtemporal2870]

I really tried to listen but around 13 min I could not any longer relate at all.

[@Rubin_Schmidt]

See the script in this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6mcinace9uepKM&ab_channel=RubinSchmidt 2:45 mins. in. !!!

[@raptorhunter5549]

Very interesting time to update monopoly to planets not just land

[@ebinmenes1698]

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[@sporter527]

how to speedrun

[@SuperMorendo]

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[@nathanholfelner9135]

That's what happens when you have disengaged enthusiasts who like to hear their own voices. Maybe this should be for going to sleep..

[@ryansweeney5716]

28:50 isreal only 60 years old. Impossibls

[@Racistobama]

@Adam Battersby Are you high? Yes, yes I believe you are.

[@Hotlooksamerica]

Skipped 9 min

[@devinglis3179]

I watch alot of tartaria vids Where the constant theme is "the narrative we are told is a lie" wake up to this pumping the narrative... hmm

[@dandee9014]

Hope you have had your own grand children now...u realise that u have time and experience .

[@lalonguecarabine4952]

Well you're missing a deck a cards duh.

[@DieterHageman]

Once there was knowledge... then came Rome and islam

[@DieterHageman]

@Dr Odd certainty is something only idiots can afford.

[@DieterHageman]

@Dr Odd oh reflecting it back to me... you must feel even smarter now.

[@DieterHageman]

you must feel even smarter, means you at a later moment in time...

[@DieterHageman]

a smart person will get it...

[@DieterHageman]

@Dr Odd when you grow up, you'll notice there is a difference between being smart and being smart.

[@JimFortune]

Way too much time spent on intros.

[@Za7a7aZ]

The british should demand Finkel for prime minister... Beter yet...ignore charles and made king.

[@joshdibble9357]

Umm, ahh, ummm. Aahhhh. Ummmm. Ah. How did I end up here? Due to COVID 19? Oh wait Finkle!? Laces out Finkle? Umm. Ahh. Umm. These people believe we came from apes.

[@CrisSelene]

You are a prime example that some have not evolved past the ape stage. Even ape is too much

[@colinthomson5358]

@@CrisSelene - So he can mate with a female Ape? Hmmm

[@patrykzi6024]

@@CrisSelene d O Oh

[@rubenverheij4770]

....................................... Josh,_ how_YOU_can_proof_ human_beings_ not_came_from_apes?_ .......................................

[@AtlasRapture]

@@rubenverheij4770 How you can proof Abraham Lincoln wasn't president of Germany?

[@chadirwin1534]

You don't have to be a genius and do a lecture, to know that global communication was a fact. Just like you said about the boardgame, they made their own interpretations. Why u think they are pyremids on every continent.

[@colinthomson5358]

There are tons of things found around the world that *seem* to be built by the same people. So much so that I actually think a large group split into several small groupss and spread out around the world taking skills and info with them. There's really specific things like masks in China and South America both made with two materials

[@fouronegee]

@Chris Evans that's funny

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[@Anara2]

Thumbs down simply for the 10 min introductions!!!!

[@winterbirds8022]

Seriously? Just skip it ,It some,not me might want to listen to that lol

[@FootballAndSuch]

How very childish of you.

[@Balithazzarr]

Nobody will ever know know.

[@Moodymongul]

These are (pretty much) all just the same game ..gambling :-)

[@byTjo]

Dry. Very dry.

[@natoya85]

Your show are bored

[@TheKevinkauffman06]

What a long winded and unnecessary introduction.

[@Solaar_Punk]

Boring. I wish I could block the met chanel

[@artspectrum2421]

Boring!.... Start already!

[@dforte6195]

With all due respect, Brittish history is sometimes marred by their conceptualized "re-discovery" of artifacts, lands, and people, with subsequent make-believe narratives which can be constantly changed at whim by varying "re-discoverers." The history of man paints our very specific migration of ethnicity and culture across the globe. Considering that certain cultures in Africa, where man began his journey, were conquered, plundered, and whose artifacts were destroyed and reclaimed, I cannot rely wholly upon the good sir's research, as it seems to refortify the Museum's ever tight grip on "acquired" items and its possible retelling of history as it actually occurred. He lost me at "Egyptian and Aziatic Barbaric," which seems to be in itself, an oxymoron. Honestly, we still havent figured out, from what the museums left over after their many raids, have to tell us of Egyptian technology and their very existence. I dont see them borrowing a game from India when the migration of man came from Egypt, crossed other continents, and eventually came BACK around to India. He seemingly says it with such disdain, as if he is certain that the Egyptians' version of a game was in fact "Barbaric." Hmmm... So far, this is all that KZbin has to offer as far as documentaries on the subject. I challenge everyone to keep researching as I will.

[@sallylauper8222]

Irving Finkel's reference to a "Babaric game" was obviously humorous, especially after he's already shown his deep interest and respect for the game and it's history.

[@somniumisdreaming]

Originally Finkel wanted to be an Egyptologist but chance changed his career. He always makes a jokes about Egypt its his thing, he doesn't really believe they were barbaric.

[@jsinmcc92]

You commented before finishing the video

[@evelyngoodshot-segovia4978]

Boring boring boring

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