Ancient Empires

A quick tour of the Empires that had most impact on the writing of the Old Testament. This video introduces a website of images of archaeological sites at http://bigbible.org/israel/

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• bible
• assyria
• babylon
• persia

[harrisonaard1]

I like this. Very good.

[biblegen]

@harrisonaard1 Thanks :)

[neat11111]

great!

[biblegen]

Thanks!

[AshurLand]

ASSYRIA the cradle of civilization

[fredericsi]

good job

[goran21715]

Subartu was apparently a polity in Northern Mesopotamia, at the upper Tigris, in the general sphere of influence of the Hurrians. Its precise location has not been identified. According to some scholars like Harvard Professor Mehrdad Izady, identifies Subartus with the current Kurdish tribe of Zibaris inhabiting the northern ring around Mosul up to Hakkari in Turkey. From the point of view of the Akkadian Empire, Subartu marked the northern geographical horizon, just as Martu, Elam and Sumer

[goran21715]

@Treckorz The Lullubi were a group of tribes during the 3rd millenniumBC,from a region known as Lulubum, now the Sharazor plain of in the Zagros Mountains.Frayne(1990) identified their city Lulubuna with Kurdish town,Halabja.The early Sumerian legend "Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird,set in the reign of Enmerkar of Uruk, alludes to the"M,of Lulubi" as being where the character of Lugalbanda encounters the gigantic Anzud bird while searching for the rest of Enmerkar's army en route to siege Aratta

[goran21715]

@Treckorz Neolithic winemaking came from the analysis of a yellowish residue inside a jar excavated by Mary M.Voigt at the site of Hajji Firuz Tepe in the northern Zagros Mountains The jar,with a volume of about 9 liters was found together with five similar jars embedded in the earthen floor along one wall of a"kitchen"of a Neolithic mudbrick building,dated to ca. 5400-5000 B.C.The structure, consisting of a large living room that may have doubled as a bedroom,the "kitchen,"& two storage rooms,

[Treckorz]

@AshurLand Get your history right Mesopotamia is the crade of civilization and assyrian was in mesopotamial.. and Sumeria which is south of iraq was the first civilizaiton on earth and assyrian was North of iraq!

[goran21715]

The Medes were an people of Indo-Iranian (Aryan) origin who inhabited the western and north-western portion of present-day Iran. By the 6th century BC (prior to the Persian invasion) the Medes were able to establish an empire that stretched from Aran (the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan) to Central Asia and Afghanistan. Today's population of the western part of the Iranian Plateau (including many Persian-speakers, Kurds consider themselves to be descended from the ancient Medes.

[goran21715]

@Atouraya2165 COWARD,you block me l reply on other video You are a real coward and afraid of the truth and who owns not afraid to take a thing, but seems to do not have is lies and lies and distorts the facts and is said to be lying a short rope. But I know how out of the question cowards& haters.I will answer to all comment of the video on other Assyrians video. this reflects a failure to act& lowly where you are.The free love of light and the thief like a dark

l know how reply the cowards

[goran21715]

First mentioned in Elamite texts of the late 3rd millennium BC, they penetrated into Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium, were repulsed by Hammurabi's son, but secured holdings within theTigris-Euphrates valley on the northern frontiers of Babylonia and later established the second Babylonian dynasty.Chronicles and king lists are imprecise, and although the Kassite kings traditionally ruled over Babylonia for 576 years,it is probable that the first Kassite kings reigned in Babylonia simultaneously

[goran21715]

The Lullubi were a group of tribes during the3rd millennium BC, from a region known as Lulubum, now the Sharazor plain of in the Zagros Mountains identified their city Lulubuna with the modern HalabjaThe early Sumerian legend "Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird"set in the reign of Enmerkar of Uruk,alludes to the"mountains of Lulubi" as being where the character of Lugalbanda encounters the gigantic Anzud bird while searching for the rest of Enmerkar's army en route to siege Aratta

[goran21715]

The four monuments are the oldest rock reliefs of Iran.They can be dated to c.2000 BCE,because one of the reliefs has an inscription that explains that the victorious ruler is called Anubanini, and this man is also known from sources from the Isin-Larsa period.The other three reliefs must date to about the same age.All reliefs show the king, facing right and holding a bow and a battle axe, standing on a defeated enemy;in the sky,symbols of the celestial deities can be seen.Except for relief four