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  • Thus, Hebrew history is primarily based on myth created by the priests. Archaeological and anthropological evidence confirms their migratory paths to be otherwise and completely contradictory to the Old Testament. We now know that there were no characters like Abraham or Moses, but mere fictional characters that were created to bring some foundation to Israeli people. Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, Gary Greenberg from Biblical Archaeological Society have immense research on this topic.

  • @TheCelsusInstitute

    I am currently working with the Biblical Archeology Society. I am sure there are many competing theories of origins.

    Becky Neiman/Producer

    DrDavidNeiman

  • The Neolithic revolution can be traced to the highlands of Armenia. German Archaeological Institute has confirmed this in 1994. Mesopotamia had its origins from Armenia. Professor Rothman from Widener University is continuing the excavations in Shengavit now, which has confirmed this fact.

  • Isrealis are from Egypt, but their mythology is taken Chaldeans.

  • Israel history does not go back further than 1300 BC.

  • This Dr. Says Homosapiens ! So he really believe that Jehovah created man through the evolution! If he have faith that the Bible is really the word of our lovely creator .how he can teach things that contradict it!.. That is why billions of people are confused! Happy is the person who have spiritual discernment , and worship the true God. But who will give him that fact? He had not search by asking Him.

  • Languages can trace their origins from the land of Shinar/Sumer.

  • @Cloyde100  Some can.

  • @craigpsimpson Why Some?

  • @Cloyde100 Sumerians themselves have traced their origins to the highlands of Armenia. Their cuneiforms are still present to reflect this.

  • @TheCelsusInstitute I know that is where they started of, around what is now known as Turkey and Armenia.

    They then migrated to the land that became known as Sumeria, Sumer or Shinar.

  • I am proud I am Iraqi. It was the cradle of civilization and if there will be a grave for it, it would be there as well. History just repeats itself...

  • The oldest civilization is in India. India is never mentioned in history.

  • @sunshine7018c

    It is Mesopotamia, can we just listen now!

  • @nameuser39

    Dr. Neiman just said there was an advanced civilization in "India", Mohenjo Dharo (with streets and water pipes and sewage system.. and also radioactive skeletons...)

    Even the numbers and numeral system we use today is from India... we are ready to listen now!

  • @sunshine7018c Dear Sunshine, it is not my problem it is not mentioned, history never lies! 1.  Sumerian, c. 3500 BC 2. Egyptian, c. 3300 BC 3. Elamite, c. 3200 BC 4. Meluhhan, c. 2700 BC 1. Sumerian, c. 3500 BC 2. Egyptian, c. 3300 BC 3. Elamite, c. 3200 BC 4. Meluhhan, c. 2700 BC then Mohenjo Dharo, c. 2600 BC......which makes it the fifth oldest. As for Dr Neiman, listen at 3:10.
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  • See Egypt 1: The Nile

  • Caucasions living in that hot climate during time needs to be explained to me. Some would argue" oh its just a painting"(8:28). I wonder how much he really researched the Nile and the fact that it flows more than 4,000 miles from Africas center.

  • The holy man!!

  • Many stupid comments here. Either you are bad listeners or you are predispositioned. Science is about what we know and not about what we believe. Dr. Neiman shows us the caves of Lascaux as an example of intelligent and artistic people. But writing wasn't found in Lascaux, Theopetra or Petrolona. The oldest writing we've encountered are egyptian, but our alphabet comes from phoenician hieroglyphs. Greek and Hebrew letters are derived from them, whether you like it or not.

  • @drdalet uh the oldest writings actually come from sumeria...

  • @anabolicErik Writing in Sumer and Egypt developed about the same time. It is hard to say which one came first. Communication through pictures is of course very old. So writing is about Hieratic glyphs and cuneiform. They are both predated by different hieroglyphic writing in Egypt and Sumer. Also in Harappa ancient writing was found, dated 5500 years ago, so also around the same time. I would say, it is not a competition ;-)

  • Most of the videos on YouTube about Sumerians that I have found are sensationalist theories distorting much of what archaeologists have discovered. But thankfully this lecture series sticks very close to the archaeological consensus. I appreciate this posting.

  • The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ( ETCSL )

    This is a nice website with great translations and transliterations.

    An.

  • 50.000 Years?? This we know??? The Primitive had clean water, so much for the intellectuals.

  • This is very useful information for a story I am working on! Thank you so much for sharing this.

  • the bible is very reliable information historically.i know thats not true.

  • In the cave of THEOPETRA GREECE IN KALABAKA AREA the oldest wall was found 23.000 years old!!!!..We don't care about your terrible lies anymore!....Distorters of history!

  • @nixter888 A cave is not a wall. Yes there were skeletons found in there but of Nethanderals. We have found skeletons of the earliest "homo species" that are millions of years old.

  • @ChuckSchuldinerRIP0 There was a wall ...ignorant! A man-made structure,and It was constructed 23,000 years ago!....Excavated since 1987, the Theopetra cave is well known to palaeontologists as it was used and inhabited continuously from the Palaeolithic period onwards (50,000 to 5,000 years ago).Also the the sceletons were found in Greece,and it's called Homo erectus trilliensis,it's more than 12.000.000 years old!...Stop your nonsense!!!

  • @nixter888 Man-made 21,000 BC? You're babbling nonsense. Modern Humans didn't even exist 23,000 years ago.

  • @ChuckSchuldinerRIP0 GOOGLE IT ,AND YOU WILL SEE!...Greece was inhabittent since 800000 b.c.!..ETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!

  • @nixter888 SEE ALSO ABOUT THE OLDEST WRITING .The Dispilio Tablets is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed LETTERS (charagmata), unearthed during George Hourmouziadis's excavations of Dispilio in Greece and carbon 14-dated to about 7300 BP (5260 BC). It was discovered in 1993 in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island[1] near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in Kastoria Prefecture, Greece.and in some other places since 7000 b.c.

  • @nixter888 Google what? Theopetra Greece?

  • @ChuckSchuldinerRIP0 A man-made structure,and It was constructed 23,000 years ago!....Excavated since 1987, the Theopetra cave

  • @nixter888 On news discovery (it's a simple article) that says it was just a wall built to block cold air by ancient homo sapiens, and you're claiming that's evidence of humans existing 800,000 years ago.

    Grandiosity is a sign of narcissism( maybe a passive narcissism), if you're going to exaggerate something massively that is trivial, that shows massive egotism.

  • @nixter888 By "humans" I mean "Homo Sapien".

  • Go to hell Jew!!!.. Distorter of History!!!!

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  • The first evidence of human life in Greece dates back to the Palaeolithic period between 120,000-10,000 B.C. However, it was not until the Neolithic period dated approximately 7,000 - 3,000 B.C. that Greek civilisation grew and flourished!....way before any other place on earth!!!..JEW TELL YOUR LIES TO SOMEBODY WHO DOES NOT KNOW!!!!

  • @nixter888 Evidence of human life and Civilization are two different things numb nuts lol

  • @dlc593 YOU TRYING TO BE SMART,WITH ME?....Minoan,Mycenaean,Cyclad­ic civilizations,since more than 42.000 B,C,...ARE INDEED GREAT CIVILIZATION!!! numb nuts lol!

  • @nixter888 Where are you getting your information? Because it goes contrary to everything in known archaeological history. Even NON-JEWS say you are incorrect sir.

  • @dlc593 The archaeology gives me the information!...The thousand years old sunken cities of the Aegean give me this information!!!..The hidden wonders of Crete's mountains,and the whole Greece's give me the information! If you only knew!

  • @dlc593 Absolute certainty is for the uneducated mind and fanatics, so I am all ears and eyes for you to show me and tell me where your information is coming from

  • @dlc593 read TIMAEUS and KRITIAS of PLATO AND YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH!

  • @nixter888 So we went from the archaeology gives you the information to Plato gives you the information. It just so happens that I have read them and their is 0 archaeological evidence for Atlantis especially in the Aegean. So I am still waiting for Archaeological evidence you claim to have knowledge of that, I just have never seen apparently, since I am a history teacher it seems pretty important that I know this

  • @dlc593 In 1987, the Italian Professor of Anthropology G. Facini during the 2nd World Congress of Palaeoanthropology in Torino, announced the existence of a 50.000 years human skeleton from Crete, with a morphology similar to the contemporary Homo sapiens sapiens and not that of the Neanderthal man.

  • AKROTIRI

    It is one of the most important prehistoric settlements of the Aegean. The first habitation at the site dates from the Late Neolithic times (at least the 6th millenium B.C.). During the Early Bronze Age (3rd millenium B.C.

  • In Limnos Island an underwater city was found since 6000 b.c...,8 months ago,WITH ORGANIZED civilization ,and also an other city was found before the great deluge of the Aegean the year 12600 b.c.

  • The aceramic layer was dated between 6445 and 6375 BC with the radioactive carbon method, while the layers of the Middle and Early Neolithic (among which are the potsherds) were dated between 6025 and 5955 BC A.Sampson, The Greek Neolithical Civilization, Goulandris Foundation, 1996.

  • fter the discovery of a wooden plate at Dispilion Kastorias, which was dated at 5300 BC, a new impressive discovery came to light, concerning the prehistorical alphabet in the Greek region. In the Cyclop cave at the desert islet Yura of Northern Sporades ceramic fragments of written pots (potsherds) were excavated, upon the surface of which have been carved symbols facsimile with the letters of the classic Greek alphabet. The potsherds are dated between 6000 and 5500 BC.

  • After...........

  • The distortion of history should stop NOW!!!!

  • @nixter888 Ok once again, CIVILIZATIONS and human remains are different. I know people did not just show up out of no where. I realize they were around before Sumeria. What I am saying and what this guy is saying is that there is no evidence of a civilization before this.

  • @dlc593 Greece is the mother and father of our Civilization today.

    You like it or not...

  • @pianote23 I did not say that they were not at any point. I will now though, because our Civilization does come from Greece, the mother and father of Greece is Egypt and Mesopotamia. Now I will say this, that nowhere in history do we find a beginning, only a continuation, but until "who" gave Sumeria their civilization is determined Sumeria is the beginning of civilization, whether you like it or not...

  • @dlc593 The oldest civilization and culture  comes from Greece-Chalkidiki-"Petralona" (of one million years or more) , recognized by international conventions.

    Take a look at Aris Poulianos research and you will find the truth.

  • @pianote23 I will look into it, but again his research will still show just a continuation it will not be the first.

  • @pianote23 Just a quick synopsis that I read tells me he found a cave with that showed human occupation in it. Human occupation of an area does not make it a civilization.

    So maybe you should tell me what your definition of a civilization is, because we are obviously on two different definitions

  • @dlc593 watch?v=EOI9i91_pXk

    ...and learn from this...

    Hellinic is the oldest and Greatest civilization in human history.

  • @pianote23 according to who and what?

  • @dlc593 The theory that we took the letters from Phenicians is a myth.

    Also the greatest myth is that the first human was from Africa.

    It's all about money and the tourism. Petralona show us other wise!!!

  • @pianote23 My question was what is your definition of civilization because I believe we are looking at this from two different definitions. I learn more by reading, youtube is my entertainment platform

  • Your language derived from Greek, you have Greek Olympics,....nothing from Tigris or Euphrates....

  • @dlc593 Everybody try to steal our civilization and history and this is a fact. Take as an example the Fyromian monkeys who believe after 2000 years and more that they come from Alexander the Great.

    These people are comedians like many others.

    Jealous barbarians!!!

  • @pianote23 Again not my question, but ok don't try to prove your point

  • @dlc593 Civilization is a form of human culture in which many people live in urban centers, have mastered the art of smelting metals, and have developed a method of writing.

    The first civilizations began in cities, which were larger, more populated, and more complex in their political, economic and social structure than Neolithic villages.

    One definition of civilization requires that a civilized people have a sense of history -- meaning that the past counts in the present.

  • @dlc593 HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!

  • @pianote23 where are the first humans from?

  • @tw1704 Search Aris Poulianos research (Petralon-Halkidiki-Greece)...

  • (Petralona)

  • @pianote23 Pentralona skull? Which is just Homo Heidelbergensis. In between Neanderthals, and Modern Humans. That's not a modern Human. I did a quick search and found that.

  • Great!!!!

  • he considers the bible to be a "very reliable source"; ok, dont really want to watch anymore. The bias is too annoying here.

  • This man's life work has helped me so much. I find the teachings fascinating! Thank you whomever puts these up!

  • It is funny that we keep getting older as historians look at it, 50,000 here, but an Ocher Plaque found in South Africa is 70,000 years old. Anyone know hold old this is?

  • How about Susa in Iran? How about Jiroft in Iran?

  • susa is more recent than sargon of akkad ( a summerian)

  • Sumerian and Akkadian is in Iraq, dumb shit..

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  • No, I agree with him, actually.

    Europe is derived from Greece, and Greece is traced back to Mesopotamia and Egypt..which concludes that Mesopotamia and Egypt created the western world.

  • Great! He wants to feel proud that his civilization (western) is older than any other civilazation, so he connects ancient Greece to Sumer & Egypt by hook or by crook. You want to feel proud that your civilization (Sumer, Egypt) gave rise to western civilization, so you both agree with each other. Excellent! Let us all celebrate how proud we are.

  • He's Jewish.

  • Yes and Mesopotamia and Egypt is tracked back to Africa..which concludes that Africa created Mesopotamia and Egypt and created the western world.

  • Mesopotamia as culture is not derived from Africa, only the people like any other people, are originated from Ethiopia.

    Mesopotamian culture created Egypt and many major civilizations.

  • We are all africans...Allah(swt) created the first man black out of earth.

  • Iraq and Egypt are the cradles of Western Civilization.. not Greece and Rome.

    Good lecture.

  • @72757373 you say nonsense...

  • @72757373 Greece was the birthplace of the West. Democracy, sciences, philosophy, sports (Olympics), warfare, citizenship/liberty, universalism etc... were all invented there.

    Egypt and Iraq were primitive mystic places who were for their time great but they were not cradles of Western Civilization which came later.

  • @ImaginedWriter primitive ! mystic, you see a lot of aladin films ...

    everything in the west is coming from the east, even human beigns

  • Not bad. I just can't trust history through the eyes of religious bias.

  • thats y u have to go to the middle east and figure it our urself

  • ha ha ha ha is the ANY OTHER KIND OF HISTORY??????

  • The oldest Indians writings say that Ethiopia is their place of origin. How does this mesh with your findings?

  • I very much enjoy these lectures but it strikes me as rather unhelpful to build-in Mesopotamia and Egypt into a 'Western Civilization' narrative. Influence is something else. Personally, I find the Spenglerian lay out of civilizations as much more helpful than an Ancient/Medieval/Modern model. The West was highly influence by Classical and Arabic cultures but that is a very different thing from considering them all the same thing.

  • A kosher Jesuit?

  • should be interesting information even though i enter into it understanding that he lecturer is probably a Jesuit Coadjutor considering his educational background. He's likely nothing but a tool of the papacy

  • Tool of the papacy? Guess you didn't notice his head gear.

  • That is not Catholic.

  • lol we are not westerners we are middle easterners you don't have history

  • this guy is way to subjective to be a real scientist. "israel the third great civilisation" come on. the phoenicians were a completely different people than the israelites who were no more than 2000 people living in tents at that time when in iraq and egypt they were building massive works and in phoenicia the alphabet was invented and a sea empire.

  • antiiraqwar I believe it is you that is being to jaded to see reality. Perhaps if you were to explore mtDNA groups of these areas, you would realize you are totally wrong. Furthermore he never said Israel was the third great civilization, he the Hebrews/Canaanites/Phoenicians were the third cradle of civilization. Do you even know ancient history? You sound more like a moron that carries a big chip on his shoulder.

  • @antiiraqwar He did not say anywhere in this video "Israel, the third great civilization". He said the Phoenicians, in general, including Israel, and the 3 river systems in the fertile crescent. You are a moron, and so are the antisemitic fools who gave your comment a thumbs up. This man is a famous historian. Give him respect.

  • @Jorell1000

    israel was phoenicians

  • @Jorell1000 It's typical and expected of you people to say anything you don't agree with is anti semitic.

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