Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
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中文导读
大英博物馆副馆长 Irving Finkel 在英国皇家学会（Royal Institution）带来的风趣演讲，生动讲述了美索不达米亚楔形文字的诞生与破译史，并风趣地解释了为什么破译这些三千年前的泥板文字会如此艰巨而迷人。
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HN 网友一致推崇的学者级通俗科普，叙事生动幽默、妙趣横生，将冷僻的古代文字学讲得扣人心弦。
「强烈推荐 Irving Finkel 教授在皇家学会关于楔形文字三千年演变史的演讲。」HN 网友原话：Highly recommend Prof Irving Fink's talk to Royal Institution on the 3,000 year development of cuneiform
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Irving Finkel of the British Museum lectures at the Royal Institution on the invention and decipherment of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, and why it is so hard to translate.
HN users recommend it as a delightful, well-told account of how cuneiform developed and was decoded.
HN 上的提及
Irving Finkel's lectures are marvelous.
Here[1] is a video covering how cuneiform (the writing system) was deciphered
There's a really good Royal Institution talk on cuneiform and how difficult it is to translate
Highly recommend Prof Irving Fink's talk to Royal Institution on the 3,000 year development of cuneiform
It's a fascinating story, well told by Irving Finkel