You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

It's great to be back. It's been a couple of weeks. I hope that while I was gone,

and I hope you had some time to

catch up on some of the episodes that you have missed or perhaps even listen to or

re-listen again to some of the jam-packed episodes so that you don't miss anything.

I spent the last couple of weeks in Europe. While I was there, I took advantage of the opportunity to

check out some of the artifacts that we've been discussing on the program, which was great fun.

I swung by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to check out the Samarian King List, the prism.

You know, I knew it was small, but you really don't get a feel for how small it is until you see

it in person. It's only about eight inches tall. It's such a fantastic artifact. I also swung by the

British Museum. You know, I was hoping to lay my eyes on the arc tablet, but I was destined to be disappointed because it's not part of their permanent

collection. I, of course, think it should be, but it gets rotated in and out, and it was on the

out rotation. So I was really bummed about that, but I did get to see the Shabaka stone. And that was a bit

of a shock. I had no idea how large it is. That thing is huge. When you read

and see study about these artifacts and books, it's really hard to get a feel for their size.

The Shabaka Stone is a whopping four and a half feet long and three feet wide. It was really

quite impressive. The Shabaka Stone is part of the

British Museum's permanent display, so if you do get a chance to visit, it will always be there

for you to see. While I was in London, I also swung by Westminster Abbey. I wanted to take

another look at the Cosmati pavement that we've talked about extensively in episode

number seven, the King of the Four Corners. It's definitely a cosmological and theological wonder.

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