Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

I sort of feel like I empathize with them because these women are, like, working, and they're also looking after, like, eight children. Yeah.

I sort of feel like I empathize with them because these women are, like, working, and they're also looking after, like, eight children. Yeah.

Yeah, having a blast, maybe even taking a second wife.

Yeah, having a blast, maybe even taking a second wife.

Yeah, and there are lots and lots of tablets that tell us about every stage of scribal education. There's one house in Nippur, a city in what is now Iraq, that archaeologists have given the very kind of charming name of House F. Wow. Thanks, archaeology. That's great. Exactly. We're very excited now to hear about how stuff.

Yeah, and there are lots and lots of tablets that tell us about every stage of scribal education. There's one house in Nippur, a city in what is now Iraq, that archaeologists have given the very kind of charming name of House F. Wow. Thanks, archaeology. That's great. Exactly. We're very excited now to hear about how stuff.

And they found over 1,400 school texts, basically, from just in the first season that tell us about, you know, the first messy wedges that scribes were impressing as little kids. My first wedge. Yeah, my first wedge, exactly. It's like those, you know, wobbly kind of fingerprint smudged tablets. Finger space, finger space, finger space.

And they found over 1,400 school texts, basically, from just in the first season that tell us about, you know, the first messy wedges that scribes were impressing as little kids. My first wedge. Yeah, my first wedge, exactly. It's like those, you know, wobbly kind of fingerprint smudged tablets. Finger space, finger space, finger space.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But, yeah, all the way up to, you know, quite advanced math and Sumerian literature. Doing the GCSEs. Yeah, GCSEs, fake contracts, everything.

But, yeah, all the way up to, you know, quite advanced math and Sumerian literature. Doing the GCSEs. Yeah, GCSEs, fake contracts, everything.

They were, yeah. And then you also get glimpses into, like, how frustrating it might have been to be a student because there's one tablet with a bite mark in it. Amazing. Yeah, like maybe a 12-year-old.

They were, yeah. And then you also get glimpses into, like, how frustrating it might have been to be a student because there's one tablet with a bite mark in it. Amazing. Yeah, like maybe a 12-year-old.

And then some doodles as well. There's one that's maybe of a teacher sitting in a chair holding a stick out.

And then some doodles as well. There's one that's maybe of a teacher sitting in a chair holding a stick out.

Maybe, it might be. I kind of can't imagine who else the student would have... The stick suggests corporal punishment, doesn't it? There are stories about schools that the students had to write down that are in Sumerian where it gets kind of heated at times.

Maybe, it might be. I kind of can't imagine who else the student would have... The stick suggests corporal punishment, doesn't it? There are stories about schools that the students had to write down that are in Sumerian where it gets kind of heated at times.

So they were probably speaking Akkadian at home because by the time House F exists, Sumerian is a dead language.

So they were probably speaking Akkadian at home because by the time House F exists, Sumerian is a dead language.