Irving Finkel has possibly the coolest job in the world – he’s curator of cuneiform at the British Museum!

Since 1979 he’s been trawling the Museum’s 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 he’s been obsessed with since childhood!

We’re getting ready to make our first YouTube series and we need your help!

We’ve made pilot episodes for four series that we want you to watch. Tell us which one you like by giving the video (or videos) a ‘Like’. The video with the most likes by 23 Dec 2015 will have a series made from January 2016.

This series is Curators' Corner.

The other series are:

Behind the scenes    • Behind the scenes: from marbles to mu...  
5 things you didn’t know about…    • 5 things you didn't know about penises  
Love objects    • Love objects: Grayson Perry and the L...