Phil Wang

It's not an English. I feel like Neo. Start again. I'm like Neo when he says, I know Kung Fu. Yeah. I know cuneiform. You know cuneiform. I can speak it very fluently. No. I don't know why you have such a problem with me saying that.

It's not an English. I feel like Neo. Start again. I'm like Neo when he says, I know Kung Fu. Yeah. I know cuneiform. You know cuneiform. I can speak it very fluently. No. I don't know why you have such a problem with me saying that.

It's a script.

It's a script.

The nuance window!

The nuance window!

As always happens when I'm on this show, you tell me about the quiz at the start of the episode, and when you tell me about it at the end, I'm always surprised. So I'm not feeling too confident just now.

As always happens when I'm on this show, you tell me about the quiz at the start of the episode, and when you tell me about it at the end, I'm always surprised. So I'm not feeling too confident just now.

Oh, it was used to elicit messages from the gods. That's right.

Oh, it was used to elicit messages from the gods. That's right.

A drawing of probably his teacher with a cane. That's right, yeah. And also teeth marks as well.

A drawing of probably his teacher with a cane. That's right, yeah. And also teeth marks as well.

Your favourite. It is a lie. It is an ancient lie that some priests cooked up to look important.

Your favourite. It is a lie. It is an ancient lie that some priests cooked up to look important.

You are a philologist. Triangle out of triangle. Correct.

You are a philologist. Triangle out of triangle. Correct.

It really was, yeah. It's always amazing because we do think about these ancient peoples, like you say, as being more about, more robotic in a way, that they were just about survival, that their writing was just about practical things, but there's so much sort of life and drama that we would recognise today. Yeah, it's so proper stuff, isn't it?

It really was, yeah. It's always amazing because we do think about these ancient peoples, like you say, as being more about, more robotic in a way, that they were just about survival, that their writing was just about practical things, but there's so much sort of life and drama that we would recognise today. Yeah, it's so proper stuff, isn't it?