Can you help us with PREMIERES? POLL
We find the premiere feature of YouTube to be quite helpful, at least in theory. Giving you a chance to chat with the experts seems like a good thing, and something you would all enjoy. However, the problem is timing, and how notifications work on YouTube. Most of you get a notification when the premiere launches - usually around 36 hours before the video goes live. However, no one gets one as the video goes live... Some of you have complained about this (totally understandable), and the feature does seem to really hurt the videos view wise. Others are there for every premiere. There isn't an obvious solution to this with the way the feature currently works. So POLL!
Please let us know in the comments if you have additional thoughts, but for the moment, would you prefer:
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Irv still has 491-years left on his employment contract! At least according to the first ever episode of Curator's Corner, which somehow came out 9 years ago today.
At the time, the video got 11,690 views in the first month... which doesn't sound like a lot, but was huge for us. It's now just shy of 1,000,000 views.
If you haven't yet watched it, Irv explains his life-long obsession with the Royal Game of Ur, and how he set his sights on one day discovering and deciphering the rules, both of which he did @britishmuseum
#CuratorsCorner #IrvingFinkel #RoyalGameOfUr
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Later today we'll be doing another extended Curator's Corner Q+A, this time with curator, ancient-mythical-lost-temple finder and Sumerian maths decipherer, Sébastien Rey. Join us in the live chat from 4PM (BST). Video will start premiering at 4:30PM. watch video on watch page
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A DOUBLE BILL OF MATHS IS COMING! And it's NOT your everyday school maths either.
We teamed up with maths YouTuber (and all around lovely guy) Matt Parker, to tackle 2 areas of ancient maths.
Today at 4pm (BST) on @standupmaths channel Matt Parker and British Museum curator Ilona Regulski will take on an ancient Egyptian papyrus that just so happens to be the oldest mathematical textbook with a named author in the world.
THEN at 4:30pm on @britishmuseum channel Matt joins British Museum curator Sébastien Rey to find out how we found a lost, 'mythical' temple by cracking a maths problem that was sent to a king, through a dream, by an ancient Sumerian god (who spoke only in maths).
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Hey all,
Sorry to do this but we've had a minor (but massively inconvenient) tech issue. It means we aren't able to post the final Sherbourne Cartonnage video tonight. Instead it will come out tomorrow morning (around 17 hours from now for all you non-UK time zone conservation fans).
In the meantime, you can keep yourself entertained with our supercut of all the previous episodes in this one, handy... supercut.
See you tomorrow!
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Let us know what your horological hero image is!
We've just posted an image with 4 possible thumbnails for this week's episode of Curator's Corner. If you have a minute, let us know what your favourite is. Actually thumbnails in previous Community post.
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So it turns out image polls only do square 1:1. So scrap that last vote (although it was interesting that Darryn preferred "Curi Clo" to not being able to see objects or Oli's face). Here's an image of all 4 options. Let us know as a comment below which takes your fancy (there will also be a text based poll in a minute).
#YouTubeIsAlwaysALearningCurve
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Like Curator's Corner? Like Christmas? Like Doctor Who?
If you answered yes to at least 1 of those questions, then this episode is definitely for you; a Curator's Corner Christmas Special all about a Doctor Who £10 bank note featuring the Tenth Doctor David Tennant. We affectionately refer to it as the 'David Tenner'.
CONTENT WARNING:
Around 02:48 it gets real weird
Also there are terrifying robot Santas
Also, also features terrifyingly realistic SFX
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You asked for more Ilona. You asked to learn to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. So here's a Curator's Corner doing just that. Join Ilona and Nick as we try to find out if 28 minutes is anywhere near enough time for Nick to learn to love verbs in the way only a true Egyptologist can.
CONTENT WARNING:
So many tangents. But then again, that is exactly what you asked for.
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So I haven't had to do this before, but our latest episode of Curator's Corner has been absolutely buried. According to analytics, fewer than 2000 of you have had it turn up in either your Subscriber Feed or in your Recommendations. For context, in the first week it's usually about 10x this amount.
Whatever the reason for this (I do have some theories), if you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, I genuinely think it's one of the most powerful episodes we've ever made. It will give you a brief, but insightful introduction to Punjabi culture (both historic and modern) via the wonderful words and poetry of Imran Javed. If you're a fan of Curator's Corner, you should really enjoy the episode. And if you can give it a like, it would really help to push it out beyond the incredibly small group of people it has reached thus far.
Right I'm now going to get back to editing the hieroglyphs video, which will definitely have exactly the right amount of tangents... definitely.
Nick
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Discover over two million years of human history and culture. Some of the world-famous objects include the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and Egyptian mummies.
THE MUSEUM LOVES TO HEAR FROM YOU
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