Civilisations- Mesopotamia [4/6]

[Nomak020186]

Mesopotamians were about 3-4 meters high.

[fuelban]

Where there is the locking of two stones by these metal staples, I knew it was seen before, there is a Sumerian statue of a goddess, that locks the lower arms to the upper arm and torso using this same Method from some “4 thousand years before” we see it used in south America… check this video at 09:43 mins, (Civilisations- Mesopotamia [4/6] )

Thom in Scotland.

[bg24955]

the french guy is wasting my time.

[marshtart01]

I think that is a very cool way to collect tar. I kind of want to collect tar now.

[CIEArmenia]

When naming the places where Sumerians ventured for ceder trees and wood, the speaker mentions Turkey along with Syria. Attention should be made while using current geographical names of certain territories with ancient Sumerians in order not to create confusion for the audience which is less familiar with the history of the area.

[iraqituber]

love you iraq , thanks to you we are who we are 

[unifiedreality]

I was just told to retrieve a law stone by Hammurabi on classic Age of Empires :)

[truthhitmanisback]

At 3:46 you see the original Sumerians, or the " black faced people" as they described themselves on the Babylonian inscriptions. They should show them close up !

[Jaahaah]

What happens if you don't coat your hands in sand and try to pick up tar?

[GhinainanEvNoti]

@Jaahaah It'll stick to your hands for a very long time

[xSouthxKURDISTAN]

Hamurabi was a Babylonian! and the Babylnians were ancient Akkadians (semites) who captured Sumeria and ended up the Sumerian era and natin. You just jumped like a RABBIT between centuries! Akkadians were occupiers not Sumerians. LAter Akkadians became knows as Baylonians and then Assyrians. Hamurabi was an occupier not Sumerian king

[evilmick66]

@xSouthxKURDISTAN Exactly! I was wondering about that myself. The true laws of Sumer was written in the Code of Ur-Nammu! (Or at least those were the laws of Ur, anyways.)

This combined with their claim that Sumerians invented the goddamn WHEEL of all things makes me this doc kind of shakey to me =/. But hey, it's better than having to hear about how the Sumerians were descended from "aliens," spoke a "demonic magical language," and had something to do with "Illuminati."

Seriously... -_-

[abaex]

faved and liked ;P

[MrAdee28]

i wonder why this documentary doesnt talk about how the sumerians communicated with aliens from the 12th planet in the solar system. read zack sticthen's books and you can clearly see that the sumerians where quite aware of life outside this planet.

[evilmick66]

@MrAdee28 Go read another fairy tale, kiddo. The adults are watching this.

[TheMoosenuts]

@MrAdee28 they knew about every other planet and moon in our solar system so something was going on.. they knew about planets and moons that can't be seen with the human eye and whats more is they knew what order they were in. im not sure i wouldn't say i buy the whole annunaki creation myth but i think it's obvious that modern science has it all wrong as far as when civilization began and how advanced they were. there's too many things that just dont add up with their timeline, not even close.

[AloofPeregrine]

@TheMoosenuts I would suggest two videos on the SagansCosmos channel, "Ancient Astronomy" and "Pictures in the Sky." Ancient astronomers were extremely observant of the stars. They noticed a few stars that appeared to move and shift about in their own independent patterns compared to the other stars that always remained in proximity to each other. They turned out to be planets. Some are visible to the naked eye (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). BTW Sitchen was a scifi novelist, not a historian.

[hampsons1]

8.34 - he's wearing a watch! That's pretty weird lol.

[evilmick66]

@hampsons1 LMAO It's probabley not a watch, just a piece of jewelery. But it's still really funny how much it looks like one! XD

[Biddity]

@hampsons1 You're right! D:

[unlyckystrike]

I`m interested in an documentary about the Mesopotamian religion(s). Is there any such thing?

[HomoGnosticus]

@shihabAlDin1

>Research "chariot" wikipedia

I did it, you seem not to have done it.

How do you like:

"The spoked wheel was invented more recently, and allowed the construction of lighter and swifter vehicles. The earliest known examples are in the context of the Andronovo culture, dating to ca 2000 BC. Soon after this, horse cultures of the Caucasus region used horse-drawn spoked-wheel war chariots for the greater part of three centuries. ..."

from

wiki/Wheel

[HomoGnosticus]

Sumerians had wagons, with 4 heavy solid wooden disk wheels, pulled by oxens and donkeys, I wouldn´t call that a chariot.

Chariots (fast, light, pulled by 2 or 4 horses) are first proven at finds of the so called Andronovo culture. From there this technology spread to the Hethites, Persians, Indians and so on, That´s exactly what wikipedia is saying.

[HomoGnosticus]

so far I know the chariot was invented by indo europeans, not in Sumer

[mongoose100989]

alibastare.

[perusperiaate5]

So far I like this documentary; however this part is a bit misleading. I read both Sumerian and Akkadian. Hammurapi was definitely not Sumerian, but a Babylonian king. That was about 600 years after the last Sumerian period. The Hammurabi Steele was written in Bablyonian Akkadian. The writing in the tablet around 8:00 was in Akkadian not Sumerian. The statue around 8:00 and the bas-relief around 4:00 looked Assyrian, not Sumerian. Akkadian speakers did inherit a lot from the Sumerians though.

[nesikhaNofret]

amazing!

[DoonM]

I have to clearify one point. Okey they called the people that invented the wheel and writing, sumerians. That's correct. But later on, why do they call the babylonians and assyrians, sumerians? Babylonians and assyrians (originally both belonging to the akkadians) adopted and borrowed almost all of the sumerian culture after they invaded Sumeria. The akkadians and sumerians were very different people. So it certainly isn't correct to call them sumerians. .

[DoonM]

Sumerians vanished and akkadians took over. Sumerians and akkadians didn't even speak the same language and the two languages weren't even related.

[whileeagle]

I've utilized the time during french speaking to take them notes :) great clips!

[Taveren22]

French translation:

 " Mesopotamia was a big laboratory for the "gods".

[AriniaLendin]

French translation: There are many similarities between the bible and Mesopotamian mythology. Archeologists speculate that many of the stories found in the Bible have Mesopotamian origins. Many civilizations have stories about the creation of man/ about a great flood that are similar to the biblical model. Mesopotamia is one of the first to document them. Perhaps the stories were spread through travel on one of the many trade routes that existed in the ancient world. We may never know.

[Erkynar]

Thanks!

[marshtart01]

@AriniaLendin

Thank you! : D

[111Assyria111]

Thank you for posting

[1Akkadian1]

there are dozens of those cylindrical stones in La Louvre musuem in Paris, I had my own before we left Baghdad and everything was lost

[brick4sale]

I saw that at the Louvre sad about everything that was lost.

[sbergman27]

Watching that part of the video, I couldn't help but think of those mechanical credit card machines where you set the card in place and run the slider over it (ka-chunk) making carbon copies. It's the same thing, really. Well... we don't have to bake it afterwards anymore. :-)

[ngocngocngoc]

it`s great :))