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  1. Love the archaeology turn!!!

    To be clear about something, whether it's ever done or not…

    Digging up beanie babies will never be a worthwhile archaeological pursuit.

  2. It’s NoT clickspring !! Simon said they were remaking the mechanism with the same tools from back in ancient times. That channel is cool but not what Simon explained! That’s being said does anyone know what he meant? Haha I need to know

  3. I absolutely love you Simon!!
    Your shit is always right on point.
    I have no idea how you discover your content,but you is good.2 good.
    I'll keep watching this channel…

  4. What!!! Unicorns are real! Ancient Greeks came across rhinos and that's where the idea of unicorns come from. The form of unicorns changed over time because of con artists selling narwhale tusks as unicorn horns. RHINOs are unicorns!!!!

  5. Cuneiform actually isn't that hard to read. It's very hard to understand, considering the ten main languages that have used it have been dead for a few millennia.
    But it is one of the prime writing languages that started our modern alphabets and as such, it is extremely basic. With only 20 characters, very similar to Nordic runes.
    It's just about memorizing what each character stands for.

  6. Being an archaeologist was my dream job when I was a kid then I decided if that couldn't happen I would do realty as a backup. Spoiler alert none of that ended up happening 😂 but at least I had ambitions.

  7. Um, modern archaeologists, you say? Phil Harding, Tony Robinson and Time Team!!! They taught me that the things archaeologists get the most excited about is pottery, post-holes, ditches and rubbish/toilet holes/shafts 😂

    Also, the comment about anyone speaking cuneiform reminded me of the Time Team episode where they found a stone artifact with Ogham writing. The archaeologist talking about the object got "several" furious calls complaining that she had been reading the text upside down 🤦‍♀️ and you thought you had a tough crowd 😂😂😂

  8. Let’s be honest, even if obtained by nefarious means basically all the artifacts in the British museum are safer there than almost anywhere else.

  9. I studied History in University. My area was ancient and medieval history. And yes, I had to learn cuneiform. I can't say that I'm fluent (never was, never will… Such a pain in the ass…), but back in the day I could read it with effort. And I have to say that my teacher was quite impressed, so imagine how difficult it is.
    PS: Writing it is EVERN WORST. I never could do it right. I'm a very big guy with really big hands so handling a tiny stylus was pretty difficult

  10. "Because nothing screams 'making babies' like a GIANT SPIDER with KNIVES."
    Made my evening. And I'm sure will also make my Pulp Cthulhu mini-campaign, if it ever happens.

  11. As a physics engineer that teaches mathematics, I loved to learn that Leibniz believed in a strange 🦄. Why not, the guy for sure had a great imagination 😆. I need a strange mathematician facts now!!!!

  12. i don't currently know how to read cuneiform, but in 6th grade we got extra credit if we learned it. i used to know it, and some of my friends did, too

  13. Yes, I can read a little cuneiform. In fact, there used to be an open-access adult education evening class at Birkbeck College, University of London, where almost anyone could sign up and learn to read cuneiform. I'm guessing there are hundreds of people who learned through those classes. Some of them may even watch this channel.

    To be fair though, I'm far more comfortable with reading Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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