Archaeology Tour Ur: Cuneiform Tablet find!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- In October and November of 2022, the Penn Museum conducted the first post-pandemic excavation season at the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq. Our main goal was to more completely understand habitation at the edges of the city and just beyond its technical limits. The edge of the mound is still marked by what had been the rampart or revetment on which stood the city wall in the Ur III period, about 4000 years ago
Area 5 at Ur is near the southern edge of the mound and here, Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian houses appear to have more space in them and between them than those in the city center. This season we completed the excavation of one of these houses and looked at parts of an early house beneath it.
In this video, we tour the revealed parts of the earlier, Ur III building, and we get to see the excavation of a very interesting cuneiform tablet that was discovered while we were touring!
00:00 intro
00:41 square 5, Ur III building
01:44 Old Babylonian above Ur III
02:43 tour continues
03:20 a bowl full of tablets
04:31 tour continues
04:51 a new tablet revealed!
07:00 what is the tablet?
08:09 relationship of the tablets
09:37 outro 
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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.
Finally…Ea Nasir’s response to Nanni’s legendary diss track.
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
Very cool to find such a tablet, and to see them extract the dirt from the surface of it!
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Is probably the coolest video I've ever seen.
Yes, thrilling. Big smiley face.
Wow, an ancient blueprint with worknotes is very special.
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!
Awesome find and excellent timing! for me: I'm showing this video in class next week! 🙂
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 so much Professor. It's amazing to see on field work and an expert like you guiding us through what's happening
I hope you can do a follow-up video.
WOW !!! Just WOW
How nifty to find such an unusual tablet!
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!
6:31 Exciting!
So cool. Thanks
Amazing job of extracting the tablets.
Wow
Welcome to our land iraq
😊
Wow! This is so cool! I wish I could do that.
Thanks for showing us that.
Beautiful work. Thank you so much for filming this discovery and sharing it with us all
...this is fascinating.
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!
Thanks for posting.
that was like watching Time Team
Much appreciated
*excited noises*
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.
dr. can you talk about the saqqara bird
As someone who knows 0 about this work, I wonder why compressed air isn't used more. 🤔