The Lasting Legacies of Mesopotamia: Ideas, Monuments, Images

[@matthiasstrunz1343]

Its astonishing how fast sience evolves…the circlyes where not buried but the rubbel from above buried them in time

[@rickyf]

The subject is fascinating. However, the sound is poor and Dr. Pittman seems to be reading a manuscript rather than presenting her ideas. That takes away quite a bit from what otherwise is a highly informational talk. I expect better from a major educational institution.

[@caseyjude5472]

I wish the sound was better, other than that I really enjoyed this lecture/video.

[@expatatat]

Lectures shouldn’t just be reading dense PowerPoint slides which are off screen

[@DushevnaSepsa]

Every youtuber or streamer has way superior microphone than worlds leading intelectuals, funny.

[@f.puttstycker2784]

Don't forget mother India?

[@harpsitardo]

I can't get past the eye-rollingly trite virtue signalling at the beginning of the lecture.

[@bighulkingwar_machine1123]

It made me sick and im ending the video!

[@Istehomo]

Some academics are very good at communicating their knowledge, Penn's Simon Martin is getting better and better...unfortunately this lecture is a bit wooden and monotone, in my opinion, detracting from the content - some of which was very interesting. It's a shame academics don't get more experience at speaking and eliciting interest from an audience - zoom lectures are no replacement for speaking to real people.

[@rsp7029]

You could like... read books. Then you could imagine whatever tone you want.

[@patriciaoudart1508]

What you do is rewriting History in actual polititcs goals, this is not archeologia or science,

[@caseyjude5472]

The Great Courses Plus offers the course “Ancient Mesopotamia”-24 lectures. You could learn, for free, in 30 days, all about the birth of civilization in the crescent valley. Starting from Natufian villages all the way to the end of the Neo-Babylonian empire. Then you can compare & contrast what you learn there to what was presented here. And you would be able to produce evidence & sound arguments about truth claims. I mean, if there’s something wrong here the world should know so everyone else can learn it, right?

[@watermelonlalala]

Poop on Brickhouse.

[@stanlibuda96]

That was astonishingly boring and I learned nothing. Pity