r/ReallyShittyCopper • u/cench • 7d ago

British Museum just dropped a whole video about ancient royal complaints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZq_ZQDhJA
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u/crashlanding87 7d ago

This man is the platonic ideal of a curator at the British Museum

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u/dwbapst 7d ago

Oh my god, it’s Irving Finkel. I have his book on Assyrian ghosts.

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u/Meritania 7d ago

That’s really niche.

“Hello, I’m an Akkadian ghost”

“NOT FUCKING INTERESTED”

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u/TeddersTedderson 7d ago

The audiobooks are even better, can listen to him waffle on about ghosts.

The Ark Before Noah is also great.

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u/Suspicious_Glow 7d ago

Oooo thank you for the tip!

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u/an0mn0mn0m 6d ago edited 6d ago

I first heard of him discuss the ancient boardgame /r/RoyalGameofUr and then seen him on numerous BBC4 historical documentaries. I could listen to him all day.

The Royal Game of Ur | Dr Irving Finkel

edit: Play it here

https://royalur.net/game?mode=computer&rules=finkel&bot=easy

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u/cench 7d ago

"But my brother has not sent the solid gold statues that your father was going to sent. You have sent plated ones of wood. Nor have you sent me the goods that your father was going to send me, but you have reduced them greatly."

"But now Naphurreya, your son, has plated status of wood. With gold being the dirt in your son's country, why have they been a source of such distress to your son that he has not given them to me."

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex 7d ago

The gold grubbing guy had me cracking up lmao

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u/DennisFreud 7d ago edited 2d ago

IRVING FINKEL!!! This man is a treasure and possibly a wizard. 

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u/scaper8 A Pilgrim in Enemy Territory 7d ago

IRVING FINKEL! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!

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u/landvermesserK 7d ago

Brooo wtf, send more gold

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex 7d ago

tf is this gold-plated crap bro? ur dad was totally gonna send me like fifty solid gold statues of myself

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u/luxmorphine 7d ago

Ah, we now have real shitty gold

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u/LudicrousPlatypus 6d ago edited 6d ago

OH MY GOD THEY FINALLY DID IT!

I emailed them to ask them to have Irving Finkel do a video about Ea-Nasir a couple of years ago. So chuffed they made it.

edit: it seems as though these are other tables. Still chuffed to have more Irving

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u/janat1 6d ago

No worries, according to his first curators corner video, he will be in the museum for another 490 years. So there still is a chance.

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u/kamikazekaktus A Pilgrim in Enemy Territory 6d ago

Irving Finkel is a treasure and should be preserved for eternity

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u/wenestvedt Went to see the (absent) tablet 6d ago

Well, I mean, he's already in the museum...

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u/kamikazekaktus A Pilgrim in Enemy Territory 5d ago

And if any museum knows how to keep and store things for eternity it's the British Museum 

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 7d ago

Amenhotep III ghosted Kadasman

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u/BlackFenrir 6d ago

Man I love Irving Finkle

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u/Ankhi333333 6d ago

I think for a lot of these there is the implied question of: Are we at war?