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Phil Wang

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

You have to think about the average quality of life at the time and how much of an upgrade that would have been, even just for two months. I would have considered it. Yeah? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, depending on what age I was. If I was 40... I was already knocking on death's door, to be honest. So, you know, I'd take that. Two months in heaven and then death. Yeah, I'll take that.

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

You have to think about the average quality of life at the time and how much of an upgrade that would have been, even just for two months. I would have considered it. Yeah? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, depending on what age I was. If I was 40... I was already knocking on death's door, to be honest. So, you know, I'd take that. Two months in heaven and then death. Yeah, I'll take that.

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

Is it sort of like a tea leaves reading kind of thing? Like the pattern they fall into tells a story? So you're watching sheep flock? Yeah, you get up on a hill and you look down and see what sort of... See what they spell out. Yeah, exactly. If they spell out SOS, it's like, uh-oh. If they spell out King Dead, you go, oh, not this again. All right, who wants two months in paradise?

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

Is it sort of like a tea leaves reading kind of thing? Like the pattern they fall into tells a story? So you're watching sheep flock? Yeah, you get up on a hill and you look down and see what sort of... See what they spell out. Yeah, exactly. If they spell out SOS, it's like, uh-oh. If they spell out King Dead, you go, oh, not this again. All right, who wants two months in paradise?

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

Unfortunately, no, the sheep has to die here. Oh, entrails.

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

Unfortunately, no, the sheep has to die here. Oh, entrails.

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

They didn't think guts could tell.

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

They didn't think guts could tell.

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

The cruciform... The cruciform monument of Manish Tushu. So cruciform means, is that a cross? Mm-hmm. Okay, monument of Manish Tushu. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Hmm. It's a big... It's a building, and there's a tower, an obelisk, but it's got a cross in it. A big obelisk, but it's got a cross across it. So it's a big T. Big T. It's not bad, yes.

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

The cruciform... The cruciform monument of Manish Tushu. So cruciform means, is that a cross? Mm-hmm. Okay, monument of Manish Tushu. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Hmm. It's a big... It's a building, and there's a tower, an obelisk, but it's got a cross in it. A big obelisk, but it's got a cross across it. So it's a big T. Big T. It's not bad, yes.

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

Oh, it's a mini T. I feel like monument kind of overplays the size of it. It's a minument. So it's about foot...

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

Oh, it's a mini T. I feel like monument kind of overplays the size of it. It's a minument. So it's about foot...

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

Oh, 600 B.C.?

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

Oh, 600 B.C.?

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

Oh, B.C.

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

Oh, B.C.

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

And so you said it's cross-shaped documents, so there's writing all over the... There's writing all over the sides of it, yeah, on every edge.

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

And so you said it's cross-shaped documents, so there's writing all over the... There's writing all over the sides of it, yeah, on every edge.