The World’s Worst Script: Cuneiform | Irving Finkel in conversation with William Dalrymple

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Jaipur Literature Festival

Jaipur Literature Festival

8 жыл бұрын

Irving Finkel introduced by William Dalrymple
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@OSUex
@OSUex Жыл бұрын
Irving Finkel is a treasure. This introduction by Dalrymple is embarrassing
@HACUNA89
@HACUNA89 5 ай бұрын
My thoughts exactly!
@michaelzebro
@michaelzebro 2 ай бұрын
rly ? i mean rly ?
@disideratum
@disideratum Жыл бұрын
How could Dr Finkel NOT ALWAYS be the first choice?
@TheIrishAmish
@TheIrishAmish Ай бұрын
EXACTLY!
@husamwaleed4876
@husamwaleed4876 Жыл бұрын
Proud to be an Iraqi, thank you Dr Irving for these stunning information
@cyb-m
@cyb-m Жыл бұрын
why? you guys have destroyed your own culture by becoming slave to the arabs and their religion. And now those ISIS fools are destroying all those artifacts and statues of mesopotamia.
@jamiewaymire7599
@jamiewaymire7599 4 жыл бұрын
Can't get enough of Irving's lectures.
@simonruszczak5563
@simonruszczak5563 Жыл бұрын
You like being brainwashed.
@SrJaime102
@SrJaime102 2 жыл бұрын
checking your phone while your guest is talking?, and that terrible introduction?... Mr. Finkel deserve way more than that.
@jennifersilves4195
@jennifersilves4195 Жыл бұрын
He did say he’s not coming back.
@glutinousmaximus
@glutinousmaximus 4 жыл бұрын
I only discovered Irving Finkel recently, - he is one the funniest characters; but also extremely knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects. Always a fascinating and illuminating talk ~ Thanks for posting!
@daniadejonghe4980
@daniadejonghe4980 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant and delightful
@simonruszczak5563
@simonruszczak5563 Жыл бұрын
He's old and stupid.
@nimeryaspawnbrd1049
@nimeryaspawnbrd1049 9 ай бұрын
that's the definition of assyriologist, pretty much 😜
@pierrefitter
@pierrefitter 6 жыл бұрын
Had the pleasure of meet him after this lecture. He is utterly delightful!
@deepasampathkumar
@deepasampathkumar 3 жыл бұрын
Lucky you. I really wish they put good videos with the ppt s for PPL who can t afford to visit far flung museums and as token of stealing/ dislocating all the artifacts
@diegomorales8616
@diegomorales8616 2 жыл бұрын
Indians walking out because he didn't propagate the myth that Sanskrit was the first language.
@linzenUSAF
@linzenUSAF 2 жыл бұрын
Strange to watch such a gripping lecture, where the camera keeps cutting over to the audience full of people paying no attention to the speaker.
@Mirrorgirl492
@Mirrorgirl492 Жыл бұрын
Heart-breaking that so many are not drinking at the Finkle well. ;'(
@wpridgen4853
@wpridgen4853 Жыл бұрын
That's extra credit for ya...
@15nanoseconds
@15nanoseconds Жыл бұрын
No surprise. Arrogant rudeness seems to be deeply embedded in the culture. It's so infuriating to see this kind of disrespect for such a legend.
@yaniraorellana4756
@yaniraorellana4756 10 ай бұрын
Don’t expect “attention” in your country to be the same as yours. This was not addressed to specialists but general public. Im glad people of all kind and ages have payed attention at least 3 minutes. Me too, 30 years ago perhaps id found it not interesting. Now im passionate!
@15nanoseconds
@15nanoseconds 10 ай бұрын
@yaniraorellana4756 Very good point. So maybe the blame goes to the event coordinator. However, it doesn't change the fact that too many in the audience were just plain rude. I'm no specialist but if I'm sitting in a seat placed there for "listeners" the least respect I can give is to LISTEN. Still, I'm also aware that this is an old school englishman addressing a crowd of those who lived through or are offspring of those who were under British rule. They might still be a little salty...pun intended.
@Ngw8888
@Ngw8888 4 жыл бұрын
Alot of people of the older generation would argue that the current day generation would be bored by this. But man this guy is very interesting and i was floored the whole time by how informational it was and how much I’ve learned. But yeah fuck that audience i found it very disheartening to see his time wasted on that. I always considered older men like him who’ve purely dedicated their lives to their study to be absolute pillars to society and history. Keep on dude you’re one of the greats.
@somniumisdreaming
@somniumisdreaming Жыл бұрын
@Janitor Queen He wasn't being racist for goodness sake. He was probably annoyed by the ppl coming and going and having conversations as Finkel spoke. In my opinion the majority of the audience thoroughly enjoyed the talk.
@giggabiite4417
@giggabiite4417 Жыл бұрын
I would just quickly like to mention that a lot of those people did show great enthusiasm, and that a lot of them were probably there listening to lectures for quite a while. And I don't care how much you love something, listening to many hours of lectures on the subject will be tiring (not boring, but tiring). So I feel we can't put too much blame on this audience, although it would have been nicety see them more "with it"
@casteretpollux
@casteretpollux 9 ай бұрын
The audience have a culture thousands of years older than you or that clown Finkelstein.
@johnwinward2421
@johnwinward2421 4 жыл бұрын
Hard to watch because of all the shots of the audience sleeping, chatting, or fiddling with their mobile phones.
@ffabris
@ffabris 6 жыл бұрын
Dr. Finkel is always a pleasure to listen to! Thanks for posting.
@ashleighnelson512
@ashleighnelson512 4 жыл бұрын
"Hello, I am this afternoon's cock-up." I absolutely love Irving.
@westronic
@westronic 6 жыл бұрын
Fascinating lecture! Dr. Finkel is such a great speaker, and has a wealth of knowledge.
@karenabrams8986
@karenabrams8986 4 жыл бұрын
Irving is a treasure. Love listening to him talk about cuneiform and Babylon.
@AkBirdman17
@AkBirdman17 4 жыл бұрын
I would love if Irving Finkel was my mentor. Such an interesting man and so much of it comes from how interesting he himself finds things. I find so much joy listening to someone talk about their passion, and this man sure found his passion.
@spinningleila
@spinningleila 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you said this. I said the same, then I realized that by choosing to spend my time watching his lectures, no matter how old, I’ve made him my mentor by paying attention to his words and his body language. I only hope to be able internalize his mannerisms. I want to be like him. He nurtures my mind.
@peggychurchill5518
@peggychurchill5518 4 жыл бұрын
Good lecture, tough audience.
@ezkibela
@ezkibela 2 жыл бұрын
Yep Irving Finkel is one of the greatest storyteller, not to talk about his amazing knowledge , my favourite curator by far (just knowing the ones i know by the KZbin series of the British Museum ) i've seen some of his conferences and all of them had been great , not only the amount of knowledge you get to know , and i love history but the enterteining he makes them to be and those funny moments he spread sometimes
@yank196101
@yank196101 Жыл бұрын
I saw him speak about his new book at Watkins bookstore here in London. He was very entertaining. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator. Great speaker....
@sorinstelian4395
@sorinstelian4395 4 жыл бұрын
99% of the audience is attending a wrong lecture. maybe , except that 3 guys near the stage, on the right side ... ?
@crankyhead1089
@crankyhead1089 3 жыл бұрын
Irving finkel: here's a picture Me: waiting for production to switch the camera to the right subject...
@ergbudster3333
@ergbudster3333 10 ай бұрын
Irving is one of the most amusing speakers I have ever heard.
@SoulRippster
@SoulRippster 6 жыл бұрын
I love this guy... 21:50 "OH AND YOU CAN TELL THAT ROGUE, IF I DON'T GET THAT MONEY SOON!!!!" ahahahah Love his lectures.
@SixWildKids
@SixWildKids 4 жыл бұрын
Love Irving's style. Computers are useful for those of us out of the country to see the British Museum contents. If anything, it makes us want to go there even more.
@ludomancersvault5518
@ludomancersvault5518 5 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice Irving routinely throws shade on Egyptology?
@selfproclaimednobody4614
@selfproclaimednobody4614 4 жыл бұрын
Because of the importance of the civilization that birthed their ideologies. But yes, yes I do and it's hilarious. He sold "throws shade" at smartphones and slide machines. Lol
@daroth7127
@daroth7127 3 жыл бұрын
He litterally called the guy a cave man to his face lmao
@Roedygr
@Roedygr 4 жыл бұрын
He is such a fun presenter.
@rubygoofyprincess8101
@rubygoofyprincess8101 Жыл бұрын
Wow your lecture was amazing. It was amazing to hear so much is out there to learn for my grandchildren’s knowledge. I hope I can tell them about this so they see the world and it’s history of language. I was researching the history of knuckle bone,dice. Then I saw you.
@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa
@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa 10 ай бұрын
This guy is great, love the things he gives lectures on and how he gives the lectures. I do hope he comes back next year though, despite the comedic difficulties!
@steventhrasher3495
@steventhrasher3495 2 жыл бұрын
This was a special lecture. Well done!
@bipolarminddroppings
@bipolarminddroppings 2 жыл бұрын
You can always spot someone who studies ancient history because they say things like "eighteenth century" and dont think to add BC/BCE most of the time.
@katherinetutschek4757
@katherinetutschek4757 Жыл бұрын
Well, given that he was talking about it in context of Ancient Sumerian, I think it was understood.
@annjuurinen6553
@annjuurinen6553 4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely riveting. Thank you. I will watch this again and again. So fascinating.
@xxledbettaxx
@xxledbettaxx Жыл бұрын
I love listening to Irving Finkle's presentations. Aleays learn something new and his humor is always a good time.
@wrybreadspread
@wrybreadspread 3 жыл бұрын
26:40 It is evident that the Library of Ashurbanipal is equivalent to the Library of Alexandria. And it's ironical that Ninevah's royal library survived fire.
@Stadtpark90
@Stadtpark90 11 ай бұрын
Save the library! - Quick, burn it!
@ramadavan7435
@ramadavan7435 3 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when you get a gutka brand the sponsor a literature festival. The crowd are more interested in the gutka than the brilliant talker.
@ramadavan7435
@ramadavan7435 Жыл бұрын
@Janitor Queen nutmeg mixed with tobacco is gutka - in short
@sgilbert5753
@sgilbert5753 10 ай бұрын
Delightful lecture.
@morthim
@morthim 6 жыл бұрын
showing people in the audience yawn is bad
@8bitRemakes
@8bitRemakes Жыл бұрын
Great lecture from Mr. Finkel, as always. The kind of side notes he makes, e.g. about teachers beating children, makes it all the more memorable as well as being very entertaining. Is he my spirit animal? Maybe. Is he one my favourite scholars appearing on KZbin? Absolutely. Kinda surprized the camera man managed to find so many pretty girls to film. I thought at some point he'd might run out - but apparently no. I guess I would've done the same. 🙃 Thanks for coming to my Finkel talk
@maryseman7019
@maryseman7019 8 ай бұрын
I was shocked and disgusted by how rude this audience was. Looking around talking, eating, sleeping...why were they even there? Shame on them.
@freyatilly
@freyatilly Жыл бұрын
Don't think I've ever seen such a bored looking group of people in a lecture as fascinating and interesting as this.
@clair233
@clair233 7 жыл бұрын
I love him
@jonahperelman
@jonahperelman 5 жыл бұрын
Yep... me too.
@jdd365
@jdd365 Жыл бұрын
You could have 660k views instead of just 66k if only you put IRVING FINKEL in the actual title of this presentation….
@victoriahhigman9611
@victoriahhigman9611 8 ай бұрын
I love this. And so well presented. Who could not admire it?
@SJQuirke
@SJQuirke Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful lecture this was a real treat Edit: This is so interesting
@terrywallace5181
@terrywallace5181 5 жыл бұрын
Good lecture.
@ArtInFusion
@ArtInFusion Жыл бұрын
I adore this man, he is incredible - shame on the public
@yaniraorellana4756
@yaniraorellana4756 10 ай бұрын
Why? What are your standards?
@glenrkat
@glenrkat 6 жыл бұрын
Anybody else notice the camera guy is finding pretty girls in the audience and panning to them? Just thought it was funny, heh.
@nodigBKMiche
@nodigBKMiche 5 жыл бұрын
glenrkat would have been nice if they zoomed in on the screen occasionally...
@sam___seed4761
@sam___seed4761 5 жыл бұрын
For real tho they should have shown more of the slides than the crowd
@dillybean9959
@dillybean9959 4 жыл бұрын
He's probably 75 yr dirty ol bugger!
@baronsecuna
@baronsecuna Жыл бұрын
Wonderful presentation
@error.418
@error.418 6 жыл бұрын
Please stop editing these videos in a way that causes us to miss out on slides
@watermelonlalala
@watermelonlalala 6 жыл бұрын
If they have to chose between the lecturer and the slides, they should chose the slides. We can handle it.
@Roedygr
@Roedygr 4 жыл бұрын
ditto
@daddyo5054
@daddyo5054 Жыл бұрын
infuriating
@Adam-kf6lr
@Adam-kf6lr Жыл бұрын
@Janitor Queen Kinda like when they do a close up of the singer mincing and gyrating during the guitar solo.
@user-xg1ur7pj4u
@user-xg1ur7pj4u Жыл бұрын
ننتظر ترجمة هذه المحاضرة التي تبدوا شيقة خصوصا و هو يتكلم عن بلدنا العراق تحياتي 🌹
@Northcountry1926
@Northcountry1926 Ай бұрын
🫡
@cynthiahumes8645
@cynthiahumes8645 6 ай бұрын
Wonderful lecture. I only wish that instead of cutouts to the audience we could have instead seen the slides.
@patrickholt2270
@patrickholt2270 4 жыл бұрын
I was going to say - movable type for stamping bricks! The destruction of knowledge, the annihilation of truth, is a fundamental sin, one of the worst imaginable. With other crimes, justice can be done as long as the truth can be discovered. But if information itself is destroyed, then justice is made impossible.
@patrickholt2270
@patrickholt2270 Жыл бұрын
@Janitor Queen That's just a subset of the routinized destruction of documents by security services in the US, UK and elsewhere. Freedom of Information was intended to protect the documentary record as much as anything else, and its rolling back and neutering over the decades has been so as to protect such destruction of records. Personally as a British socialist, I don't give a shit about Trump or US election outcomes. They're both evil, they're both worse, they both carry on global imperialism and no other country including my own is safe from the threat of coups and political interference and potential bombing as long as the US empire remains and the imperialist ruling class retains control over US society, through the Constitution designed to prevent democracy and entrench oligarchy. Jan 6 was a completely insignificant pinprick compared with the damage done by the US coups which have succeeded in the world, including the 2014 coup in Ukraine under Obama, and compared with the thousands murdered on the streets of America every year by US police. When the US State Department and the CIA gets involved in another coup attempt in Washington, then you'll have something to worry about, because those expletive deleteds mean business and don't care how many people get killed to install the client regime of their choice.
@5Andysalive
@5Andysalive 3 жыл бұрын
Really great. But i have no idea where the title comes from and what it has to do with the talk.
@martyheresniak5203
@martyheresniak5203 2 жыл бұрын
Boo! Hiss! for the cameraman and editor. We don't need to see Irving. We certainly don't need to see the audience. Shots of the visuals Irving has on the screen would be appreciated.
@raywhitehead730
@raywhitehead730 Ай бұрын
Well, his lecture is not wasted on me. I well remember being posted near the ancient city of UR and having a chance to roam around it. This is where the first writing in Sumerian was probably invented. And it was likely the most important invention mankind has. I was enchanted. It made me day dream about a story: the Ghosts of Mars. Where the past and the present come together..
@pagerhoads1531
@pagerhoads1531 2 жыл бұрын
I like this guy. He looks just like my dad. He passed away in 2017.
@therealshannonpeoples
@therealshannonpeoples Жыл бұрын
Irving Finkle’s standup kills even in India
@cidklutch
@cidklutch Жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS GUY
@raminsafizadeh
@raminsafizadeh 4 жыл бұрын
I still can’t get over the introduction. How stupid do you have to be, to invite someone such as Irving Finkel, the most important treasure in the British Museum, and give him such an introduction.
@napalmholocaust9093
@napalmholocaust9093 Жыл бұрын
He likes being funny. If you don't like it I suggest cultivating a sense of humor so you can react like a healthy person and not a socially sick one.
@Mirrorgirl492
@Mirrorgirl492 Жыл бұрын
Agreed, it was cringe-worthy. This man is a treasure, and should not have been introduced as an 'after-thought'.
@dmts8098
@dmts8098 Жыл бұрын
Not at all funny.
@cyb-m
@cyb-m Жыл бұрын
It is called humour. I dont think Finkel took any offence. Why do you?
@clareryan3843
@clareryan3843 9 ай бұрын
@@cyb-m 🤦 it wasn’t funny🤦 Dalrymple was ignorant because he hadn’t bothered to watch any KZbin clips of Irving Finkel - he thought he was making a Dad joke about his family telling him what to do - but he was just wilfully ignorant. That’s the offence everyone is offended by😐
@FloridaManMatty
@FloridaManMatty Жыл бұрын
Irving is a delightful person and an incredible teacher. I have never seen a learned man captivate a room as he does. He is proof that one can be an academic AND have a superb sense of humor. Conversely, that fellow who made Dr. Finkel’s introduction should never be allowed to hold a microphone in front of a gathering of people of any size at any point in the future. That intro was almost insulting and was definitely a poor attempt to be funny by someone who just can’t pull it off. In this case, it was like someone trying to be clever and funny while he was introducing Robin Williams to a crowd. Crash and burn, buddy.
@TheAdeybob
@TheAdeybob 11 ай бұрын
absolutely riveting
@VampireSquirrel
@VampireSquirrel 3 жыл бұрын
I wish they showed the slides more
@prof.m.ottozeeejcdecs9998
@prof.m.ottozeeejcdecs9998 4 жыл бұрын
The audience looks like they don't understand anything... or that if they understand, that it is rather boring... or they are just there, so others could see them on TV, thinking: Oh, this person is attending a foreigners lecture on a dead language and dead writing... 😉 Seriously, Irving Finkel is genius, and a progressive one at that!
@jwcinc12
@jwcinc12 4 жыл бұрын
he is so great
@charleshowie2074
@charleshowie2074 8 ай бұрын
When it all kicks off I'm enlisting with the British Museum's militia.
@watermelonlalala
@watermelonlalala 6 жыл бұрын
Rude, jabbering audience is ruining this.
@selfproclaimednobody4614
@selfproclaimednobody4614 4 жыл бұрын
@Judy Snyder this is about both math and sciences! They are like this on most things that I've noticed. Probably worse now that there is Facebook...... Lol
@stumbling
@stumbling 4 жыл бұрын
This is an open air event with hundreds of other people who are not watching the lecture. That is where the noise is coming from. If you look at the audience they are rarely talking.
@maikmost8589
@maikmost8589 4 жыл бұрын
you clearly never had a lecture in India. The audience was neither "rude" nor "jabbering"
@tootstweet
@tootstweet 3 жыл бұрын
Yep, appears to be a tough crowd
@chompachangas
@chompachangas 10 ай бұрын
He's like a whip-smart Terry Pratchett character come to life.
@OstblockLatina
@OstblockLatina 3 жыл бұрын
Cuneiform: *gets called the world's worst script* Chinese script: *AM I A JOKE TO YOU?* I'd still love Irving Finkel only for all he knows about stuff, but then he adds to it a quality of one of the best stand-up comedians I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy. I just seriously and utterly can't with him!
@hakanstorsater5090
@hakanstorsater5090 Жыл бұрын
Japanese might be even worse, arguably... There's this little snag of "alternative readings"...
@echelon2k8
@echelon2k8 Жыл бұрын
@@hakanstorsater5090 Chinese also has "alternative readings".
@vaudevillian7
@vaudevillian7 Жыл бұрын
Isn’t the earliest known Chinese writing system 1500 years younger than cuneiform..?
@echelon2k8
@echelon2k8 Жыл бұрын
@@vaudevillian7 You referring to China's oracle bone script which dates to around the 2000 BC? I think cuneiform is supposed to be from about 3500 BC.
@dr3540
@dr3540 3 жыл бұрын
Such a pity we can't see the visuals.
@roan90665
@roan90665 10 ай бұрын
ياريت محاضراتك مترجمه.
@owl6218
@owl6218 Жыл бұрын
would have loved to attend this session. crowd is restless, not getting his humour. lets see how it goes
@deejayk5939
@deejayk5939 Жыл бұрын
Can hear people talking during lecture? How rude, Dr. Finkel is wonderful!
@kimeonyoung914
@kimeonyoung914 5 жыл бұрын
Why the totally misleading title for the video? Finkel says nothing of the sort, and in fact much to the opposite.
@selfproclaimednobody4614
@selfproclaimednobody4614 4 жыл бұрын
He says that at the very beginning. It was just a excerpt.
@jasonlox27
@jasonlox27 9 ай бұрын
who needs uni can sit listening to great teachers for free
@skymanblank6243
@skymanblank6243 4 жыл бұрын
Yes terrible camera work Its not about the face of Finkle nor about the audience. Its about his story words and the slides.
@theothersidenumber9307
@theothersidenumber9307 3 жыл бұрын
I am a tattoo artist, third generation fine artist and my brother and I always went to museums . It is cool to be smart!!! ♡ FROM AMERICA!!!
@nirvanabliss73
@nirvanabliss73 3 жыл бұрын
He talked about Tushratta, the Mitannis' but did not talk at all about their connection to Vedic People? Very surprising !!!!!!
@parrotraiser6541
@parrotraiser6541 9 ай бұрын
A fun talk, even though I'dheard most of it in others he's given. A bit disappointed that t didn't explain the title; why was cuneiform the worst? Partial compensation was a look at some of the beauties in the audience.
@j.t.lennon177
@j.t.lennon177 5 жыл бұрын
"You are the most handsome person I have ever seen..." lol!
@mcicogni
@mcicogni Ай бұрын
Irving Finkel could be giving a hour-long lecture on paint drying and I'd still be nailed to my chair listening.
@lucasroche8639
@lucasroche8639 Жыл бұрын
The mention of the Indus valley people reminded me of the fact that in the ...9th century (I believe) King Alfred the Great had sent a diplomat to India, for what reason I don't know nor do we know the outcome but it is none the less very in that England and India were in contact with eachother eleven hundred years ago which shows the importance of India all those years ago and that countries although half a world away corresponded, that we have no other record of such diplomatic back and forth can easily be put down to the chaos, war and wholesale destruction that was part of English life then, in that respect Dr Finkel is right when he jokingly said that we should return to the use of clay tablets.
@casteretpollux
@casteretpollux 9 ай бұрын
I happened to read today that Indian ambassadorial delegations to England were required, on return, to squeeze through a golden replica of a yoni, thus being culturally reborn. Makes sense to men. Finkel 's reasons for holding on to other people's cultural artefacts seemed to me however to be entirely spurious.
@Sharon-yk7xm
@Sharon-yk7xm 3 ай бұрын
What did that tablet say ???
@TheStrangeAeon
@TheStrangeAeon 4 ай бұрын
The human species, ladies and gentlemen.
@DavidZennaro
@DavidZennaro 10 ай бұрын
This is an interesting talk but the video would benefit a lot if it showed the pictures all the time. And in a size that is viewable.
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Жыл бұрын
I’m an Egyptologist and I’m jealous of Dr. Finkelstein: I want to give a lecture in an Indian train station during rush hour, too!
@maikmost8589
@maikmost8589 10 ай бұрын
You may or may not be an Egyptologist, but you clearly NEVER have been to an Indian train station.
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 10 ай бұрын
@@maikmost8589 - Yes, as to the first; clearly so, as to the second.
@JurijFedorov
@JurijFedorov 7 жыл бұрын
There is a popular board game called Jaipur.
@Didi8687
@Didi8687 3 жыл бұрын
Why not show the tablets he was talking about? We could always listen to him, without seeing him. The point was to see what he was talking about.
@kempedkemp
@kempedkemp 2 жыл бұрын
Must be Dr. Finkel's literature was too old for them. Half the people in the room don't belong there and are RUDE!
@yvesfree-assangescherdin6138
@yvesfree-assangescherdin6138 Жыл бұрын
This was a very interesting lecture. Thank you! It is very sad what all is destroyed by war and I found these questions in the end very important. My home country, Germany, has to give back the Gate of Ishtar to Iraq one day.
@kellydalstok8900
@kellydalstok8900 Жыл бұрын
I can understand people want their own heritage back, but the artifacts have never been as safe as they’ve been in Western museums these past few centuries. I think 3D printed copies should be made of all these artifacts before handing them back, so we can still appreciate them in some form, and something better than photos is left in case they do get destroyed by savages.
@jeremias-serus
@jeremias-serus 11 ай бұрын
The current people of Iraq have absolutely no more claim to such artifacts than the British or French or Germans do. The current inhabitants of Iraq are not genetically, linguistically, or cultural similar to such old people at all.
@anomalyp8584
@anomalyp8584 5 жыл бұрын
His lecture went wasted on them :/
@squareysquare3150
@squareysquare3150 4 жыл бұрын
Especially the idiots on their mobile phones. If they don't want to listen why are they there?
@tootstweet
@tootstweet 3 жыл бұрын
@@squareysquare3150 I wonder if it's a cultural thing .... the mobile phone etiquette. I've heard of this phenomenon before ...unrestricted mobile phone use during a major classical music performance in Lebanon (admittedly a few years ago) . A hippy once said to me "it's cultural, that's why we don't understand it". Personally, I find it really sad. Someone please tell me what I'm missing (I suspect, reluctantly, a fair huge bit). In short, I.F. is worth listening to!
@tootstweet
@tootstweet 3 жыл бұрын
Is it any irony thing? I love it but so many peeps don't get it
@chompachangas
@chompachangas 10 ай бұрын
Hah. In sound guy's defense, the mic was hot. But Dr Finkle swapped mics before they could get a stagehand out there to adjust the boom for him.
@horsetuna
@horsetuna Жыл бұрын
If I ever get the chance I need to ask him if his second Guru has an actual name
@TheGodlessGuitarist
@TheGodlessGuitarist 3 жыл бұрын
Probably shouldn't talk about Nebuchadnezzar and 'the matrix' without clarification
@WetheDepressed
@WetheDepressed 10 ай бұрын
All the shots of the audience sleeping and not paying attention.
@naomipatrao
@naomipatrao 2 жыл бұрын
What a D💡FULL 👴🏻! I love him!!
@Mirrorgirl492
@Mirrorgirl492 Жыл бұрын
I see what you did there :D
@iqda1
@iqda1 Жыл бұрын
There are more than 18 thousands ancient sites in Iraq, they explored only 550 !
@summersolstice884
@summersolstice884 Жыл бұрын
Do NOT return these treasures to a culture which will destroy them and we will lose them for all time
@Hobs55679
@Hobs55679 Жыл бұрын
So true!
@casteretpollux
@casteretpollux 9 ай бұрын
It is the effing USUK and their 'jihadist' patsies who oversaw destruction of the artefacts and monuments of the ME, is it not?
@muse4297
@muse4297 Ай бұрын
Keep all the monuments from the lands you ruled and colonized. Still think British or for that matter west is civilized. They luted the entire world , still doing from Arabia and Africa. Western world is self centered and have closed boarders while they invade all the other lands.
@muse4297
@muse4297 Ай бұрын
India had civilization before west. If they didn’t have script, they believed by repeating till you get by heart all its scriptures didn’t need scripts.
@nosuchthingasshould4175
@nosuchthingasshould4175 6 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that the exorcist was taking the piss.
@selfproclaimednobody4614
@selfproclaimednobody4614 4 жыл бұрын
Yuh think!
@dmts8098
@dmts8098 Жыл бұрын
Disrespectful introduction for a highly qualified and very knowledgeable ancient language historian. Have no idea who the missing lecturer was. Will return to view this lectures again.
@missdee0151
@missdee0151 3 жыл бұрын
how rude are some of the audience
@Za7a7aZ
@Za7a7aZ 8 ай бұрын
Is he the father of Russel Brand?
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