I love listening to Irving Finkel of the British Museum. His stories are always quite interesting and he tells them in such a charming way. This one is no exception.

The Babylonian Map of the World is the oldest map of the world, in the world.

Very interesting. Many amazing aspects in these discoveries.

I didn’t quite follow the Bitter River. It seemed like an abstraction yet beyond it was more of the physical world?

I took the bitter river as salt water…various oceans and seas.

Have always been a bit of a history nerd, this Irving Finkel cat is a great story teller. Definitely be checking out more of their channel.

I enjoyed seeing the news report he flashed back to while illustrating some of the back story on the tablet fragment. Dude hasn't changed a bit.

If I could go back and do things over, I think I would love to concentrate on the ancient world. I think we have missed a lot of things.

Thanks, Para

Fascinating. Were the large flightless birds rumors of Australia? It's difficult to imagine that any info from there could have made it to there, but stranger things have happened. I was thinking that when the found triangle established the order, that it was going to allow description of the missing triangles. My brainiac 8 year old grandson would love this.