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Greg Jenner

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You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

So who are our protagonists? Is it Anaya?

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Yeah. I feel like they might need couples therapy.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Yeah. I feel like they might need couples therapy.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Well, as I said, a Kinnear film was developed as an accountancy system early on, but it becomes just a way to communicate everything and anything that people want to say to each other, which means literature, letters, language, astronomy, petty complaints, legal trials, presumably.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Well, as I said, a Kinnear film was developed as an accountancy system early on, but it becomes just a way to communicate everything and anything that people want to say to each other, which means literature, letters, language, astronomy, petty complaints, legal trials, presumably.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Like making, you know... And they're not getting the money back. Yeah, and they're doing a lot of work, so kind of... Meanwhile, Inaya is in Turkey having a great time.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Like making, you know... And they're not getting the money back. Yeah, and they're doing a lot of work, so kind of... Meanwhile, Inaya is in Turkey having a great time.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

I was going to say, he's probably got a second family, hasn't he? He's like, who's this woman writing to me? I'm trying to play with my new kids. So how did scribes learn all these systems? Do we have evidence of their training?

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

I was going to say, he's probably got a second family, hasn't he? He's like, who's this woman writing to me? I'm trying to play with my new kids. So how did scribes learn all these systems? Do we have evidence of their training?

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

So that might have just been an honest mistake. It's just a very hungry student.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

So that might have just been an honest mistake. It's just a very hungry student.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Oh, cool. I feel like the teeth marks justifies my earlier Great British Bake Off joke. Oh, yes. I feel like clay bake, tray bake. That's the third week in the series. That's Prue Leith trying out one of the things. Yeah, exactly. Just breaking a tooth on it. That's been overproofed, I think, yeah. So we've got schoolboys doodling.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Oh, cool. I feel like the teeth marks justifies my earlier Great British Bake Off joke. Oh, yes. I feel like clay bake, tray bake. That's the third week in the series. That's Prue Leith trying out one of the things. Yeah, exactly. Just breaking a tooth on it. That's been overproofed, I think, yeah. So we've got schoolboys doodling.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

We've got a doodle of a man sitting down with a long stick and we think it's the teacher.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

We've got a doodle of a man sitting down with a long stick and we think it's the teacher.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

What language do they speak and what language are they writing in if they're training to be scribes?

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

What language do they speak and what language are they writing in if they're training to be scribes?

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Oh, OK.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

Oh, OK.

You're Dead to Me
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system

So it's like a Victorian schoolboy learning Latin so that he'd go and become a lawyer.