Eric Cline

I don't know, maybe a favorite donkey that the boys used to ride.

And I don't know how the boys died or whatever, but I think that's what we've got there.

So the gold hoard and the ivory hoard are very different in terms of how they got there, because I think the gold hoard really is hidden by somebody when the palace was being attacked.

But the ivory hoard, I think, is from a tomb.

And then the last thing I'll say, and then I'll shut up for a while, is Gordon Loud announced this to the world.

It was put on display in New York and Chicago, the ivory and the gold.

And then he excavated beneath, took out that palace, threw it away, and went to see what was underneath it.

There was stuff underneath from stratum 9 and 10 and 11 and 12, but nothing like what he had found.

So there is now just this gaping hole in the side of the mound.

I mean, he took away that side of the mound, so it's almost like a cliff face, but he only took away...

half of the palace.

The other half is still there in the mound.

And if you look at the bulk, the side that he left, which goes up about 50 feet, you can see the walls of the palace still.

They're not jutting out, but you can see them.

And that's where the archive is.

That's where Biridi is archived.

But there's a good

feet of stratified remains above, including the Neo-Assyrian palaces that Chicago excavated from Stratum III from the 8th and 7th centuries BC, and they are directly on top

like right vertically on top of the late Bronze Age palace.

So we would have to pull a Chicago and pick up and throw away the Neo-Assyrian palaces in order to get down to the other half of the late Bronze Age palace.