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Ancient Inscribed Brick: King of the Universe?

I worked at the ancient city of Nimrud, capital of the Assyrian Empire in the 9th and 8th centuries BCE, in late March to early May of 2023. The excavation was directed by Dr. Michael Danti and supported by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and the Penn Museum. We worked in conjunction with the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage throughout. While there I filmed several of our finds and excavation units. A frequent find were inscribed bricks and in this video I talk with Dr. John MacGinnis, who specializes in cuneiform writing. He tells us what the brick says and goes into some fascinating detail about some of the words and phrases. Nimrud was sacked and burned in 612 BCE. It has been excavated off and on for the past 200 years and partly reconstructed in the 1970s and 80s. Then ISIS sacked it again in 2015/16. We're now cleaning up the ISIS destruction, learning more about the Neo-Assyrian people, and helping to rebuild. 00:00 intro 00:35 background on bricks 01:35 reading a brick 03:40 finding bricks 05:38 king of the universe? 06:53 scribal practice? 07:33 farewell and outro