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).
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!
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.
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).
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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
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.
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
HOW LONG IS TOO LONG? OPINIONS WANTED!
After our Rosetta Stone video, quite a few of you asked for more videos with Ilona reading hieroglyphs. We've just shot a video where Ilona teaches Nick to read a royal title above a doorway (like how Irving tried to teach him cuneiform). As a rough cut it's 35 minutes, with lots of tangents exploring ancient Egyptian ways of thinking and scribal practices.
What do you think of learning a single sentence over 35 mins with lots of tangents? Would it frustrate you?
Before you ask, no all the tangents can't just be put at the end because too many of them relate to individual signs in the middle of the ancient Egyptian sentence.
On the evening of 4 August 2020, a massive stockpile of ammonium nitrate exploded at the port of Beirut. The explosion was the largest man-made, non-nuclear explosion in history. The blast killed at least 218 people, injured 7,000 and displaced 300,000 as well as causing $15bn of damage. The immediate and lasting effects have been deeply traumatic, not just for Beirut's citizens but for all Lebanese people.
Just over 3km from the epicentre of the explosion, at the Archaeological Museum at the American University of Beirut, a case displaying 74 glass vessels was blown from the wall, and thrown to the floor. The case, the surrounding windows and 72 of the 74 ancient glass vessels were shattered. Shards of the ancient glass were almost inextricably mixed with each other, as well as with glass from the case and windows.
This video tells some of the story of those 8 vessels, the damage they suffered, the scars they will forever bear as witnesses to the explosion and as an expression of defiance in the face of destruction. This is a story of healing reflecting the recovery of the citizens of Beirut as they rebuild their lives and their city.
The British Museum is grateful to the following for their support of the project:
@TEFAFofficial Museum Restoration Fund, HENI, The Radcliffe Trust, The Charlotte Bonham-Carter Charitable Trust, The Leche Trust, The Thriplow Charitable Trust, Friends of the Middle East Department, The Wakefield Trust and Middle East Airlines.
The moment has finally arrived. Ep4 of our epic Sherborne Cartonnage conservation series is out today. Join us at 18:15 GMT for the premiere, or watch it any time after that at your leisure. Regardless of when you watch it, brace yourself for a lot of headgear, a lot of glue and a whole lot of progress.
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.
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