Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
4 人推荐 · 跨 5 个月 · 2021–2025
中文导读
大英博物馆馆长 Irving Finkel 绘声绘色地讲述了一块 4000 年前楔形文字泥板如何送到他手中鉴定的全过程，上面记载了已知最早的诺亚方舟故事原型，后促成了一部专著与纪录片。
为什么 HN 推它
策展人个人魅力爆棚、风趣幽默，是 HN 上备受推崇的一场关于泥板与古代文明的既长见识又极具娱乐性的讲座。
「一半是令人着迷的学术新知，一半是让人捧腹的幽默段子。」HN 网友原话：equal parts fascinating and hilarious
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Irving Finkel of the British Museum tells how a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet came to him for examination. It revealed the oldest known account of Noah's Ark and led to a book and a documentary.
HN recommends it as a funny, fascinating talk on cuneiform tablets and the ancient world by an engaging curator.
HN 上的提及
Great talk for those interested in clay tablets and technology
equal parts fascinating and hilarious
telling the surprisingly amusing story of how he discovered the oldest known version of the Noah's Ark story
Excellent lecture
Irving Finkel, a British Museum curator, is a treasure.