Watching the dirt being removed from the tablet was one of the most enthralling piece of video I've seen in a very long time. Had me absolutely riveted to the screen, with the magnitude of seeing something of that ancient age being revealed. Thanks for this glimpse into the fascinating world of archeology.
Absolutely agree. It's such a privilege to get to witness such moments directly as they happen, as opposed to how TV shows sometimes stage them or fictional shows portray them.
The skill to be able to separate one piece of clay from clay/earth that surrounds it when they have been sitting together for thousands of years and are almost indistinguishable! And how interesting to find written information that can tell exactly what a house that was in use so far back in history was.
Very cool video. It was neat seeing the process of how to carefully uncover the tablet. I'd like to see more videos about how the archeological sausage is made. 😂
Thank you for the video. I personally found this discovery so touching. My career is civil engineering and I work in office with plan drawing, bills of quantities, work units and so on. Sometime I use technical publication of the government to check labor performance and then stablish the project budget. This feels so related to what I do and it is not even fully translated yet! I can't wait to know more about that building and the activity there.
Really fascinating. And the thought of what if where you are working was suddenly left and covered over or got buried in an earthquake. Then who and how people thousands of years in the future could be delicately unpicking and deciphering what you are doing there today. They would be fascinated and trying to put together how you lived your life and working hard to understand our ancient language. Possibly not much could be left that they could read, not much of our language would survive in the formats we use today!
As a iraqi so excited and happy and a lot of mix emotions I don't even know what to say, but thanks to you and all professors and the workers whose working to Unveil how our ancestor lived-in in oldest Human civilization
That was amazing to experience, as a viewer it got me emotional. I wasted 3 years of my life on Ancient Aliens FICTION (doesn't deserve the S infront). Thanks to miniminuteman I am now in to SIENCE
i love this! so exciting to actually watch in real time an artifact be uncovered! to be the first people in what like 3000 years? to look at something is amazing!
The back is blank except for one cuneiform sign. We hoped there would be more information about the building other than its measurements, but sadly, no.
Watching the dirt being removed from the tablet was one of the most enthralling piece of video I've seen in a very long time. Had me absolutely riveted to the screen, with the magnitude of seeing something of that ancient age being revealed. Thanks for this glimpse into the fascinating world of archeology.
Hopefully your soul will survive this Impact.
Absolutely agree. It's such a privilege to get to witness such moments directly as they happen, as opposed to how TV shows sometimes stage them or fictional shows portray them.
The skill to be able to separate one piece of clay from clay/earth that surrounds it when they have been sitting together for thousands of years and are almost indistinguishable!
And how interesting to find written information that can tell exactly what a house that was in use so far back in history was.
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Awesome find and excellent timing! for me: I'm showing this video in class next week! 🙂
WOW !!! Just WOW
Yes, thrilling. Big smiley face.
Very cool video. It was neat seeing the process of how to carefully uncover the tablet. I'd like to see more videos about how the archeological sausage is made. 😂
Thank you for the video. I personally found this discovery so touching. My career is civil engineering and I work in office with plan drawing, bills of quantities, work units and so on. Sometime I use technical publication of the government to check labor performance and then stablish the project budget. This feels so related to what I do and it is not even fully translated yet! I can't wait to know more about that building and the activity there.
Really fascinating. And the thought of what if where you are working was suddenly left and covered over or got buried in an earthquake. Then who and how people thousands of years in the future could be delicately unpicking and deciphering what you are doing there today. They would be fascinated and trying to put together how you lived your life and working hard to understand our ancient language. Possibly not much could be left that they could read, not much of our language would survive in the formats we use today!
Watching the tablet get uncovered and gingerly cleaned was fascinating.
Very cool to find such a tablet, and to see them extract the dirt from the surface of it!
As a iraqi so excited and happy and a lot of mix emotions I don't even know what to say, but thanks to you and all professors and the workers whose working to Unveil how our ancestor lived-in in oldest Human civilization
why not we iraqi how do this we they take our history and be femos without us
That was amazing to experience, as a viewer it got me emotional.
I wasted 3 years of my life on Ancient Aliens FICTION (doesn't deserve the S infront).
Thanks to miniminuteman I am now in to SIENCE
Wow, I'm so glad you got here. Good on you!
Wow, an ancient blueprint with worknotes is very special.
Thank you so much Professor. It's amazing to see on field work and an expert like you guiding us through what's happening
i love this! so exciting to actually watch in real time an artifact be uncovered! to be the first people in what like 3000 years? to look at something is amazing!
Amazing job of extracting the tablets.
Beautiful work. Thank you so much for filming this discovery and sharing it with us all
6:31 Exciting!
How nifty to find such an unusual tablet!
Wow! This is so cool! I wish I could do that.
Thanks for posting.
Absolutely amazing find! Out of personal curiosity, is there another side that also contains information?
The back is blank except for one cuneiform sign. We hoped there would be more information about the building other than its measurements, but sadly, no.
So cool. Thanks
Thanks for showing us that.
I hope you can do a follow-up video.
Wow
Welcome to our land iraq
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As someone who knows 0 about this work, I wonder why compressed air isn't used more. 🤔
...this is fascinating.
that was like watching Time Team
Much appreciated
dr. can you talk about the saqqara bird
Incredibly fascinating. Do you have any ideas on where Akkad is?
I don't really know, though I would guess north-central Mesopotamia, possibly in the Diyala region?
*excited noises*
@6:30
Is probably the coolest video I've ever seen.