Curators Corner: Irving Finkel

Irving Finkel has possibly the coolest job in the world hes curator of cuneiform at the British Museum Since 1979 hes been trawling the Museums 130, 000 clay tablets for clues about life in ancient Mesopotamia. In this film, he tells us about a particular tablet he found that contains the rules of a board game a board game that hes been obsessed with since childhood Were getting ready to make our first YouTube series and we need your help