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Dear Professor, Dr. Farouk Al-Rawi, I am very proud to be one of your students. Success and highness befit you, Professor Dr. Fatima Abbas Al-Mamouri / University of Kufa / College of Archeology.
Gertrude Bell - has there ever been a more accomplished Woman in history, I can't think of any. How I would have loved to have met her. Books Gertrude Bell Shaper of nations by Georgina Howell. Desert Queen by Janet Wallace Movie. Queen of the Desert (Nicole Kidman)
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I am curious about the priests and if they were ever "fired" if there were bad harvests and weather for a season. If so, what happened to these failed priests?
white people always tried to steal and appropriate the achievements of other civilizations as theirs. IF they couldnt, they would try to spin stories and theories that those civilizations where related peoples to their forefathers.
What do you mean more? What more could there be? There's just a rough sort of friendship, which is implied by trade, or war, which we assume their was not, because no evidence of war between them exists.
The Hanging Gardens were actually built in the great Assyrian city of Nineveh! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-23TXSjxVieM.htmlsi=RG8vE9egCELUoRY2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-23TXSjxVieM.htmlsi=negV44ojsCCPY2UA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Dalley ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hdaZVfxoOK8.htmlsi=WeyNLFBaXjeAe_PB
I have a question for you can you please tell your profesor to come out and debate me to prove sumer is in Iraq, come out and tell the world where the cities are located today all of them. Akkad, Lassa, Umma, Eridu, UR, lagash, Sippa and others I'm waiting
This lecture got me to subscribe to the channel. I wonder something that is open for further research. What is the difference between what the ancient Mesopotamians and what modern people think about medicine? How were they right and how were they merely superstitious? Has modern medicine missed something they already knew?
Rudolf Clausius (1822 -1888) needed to conclude that: "No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it" - instead of stopping after saying: "The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum". Today, the always war-torn Mesopotamia has come up with a twist to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - basically a Gilgamesh 2.0 Why Mesopotamia always pretending itself the reactor of civilisation? The answer is likely in the sun, longitudes, latitudes, geography, soil and water. Therefore, Oxford is strongly encouraged to be among the voices calling today for the removal of hydro dams in Turkey and Iran blocking Tigris and Euphrates from flowing into Syria and Iraq. Humans remain humans - slow, thick and primitive. When energy looted - it turns - curse. A curse that destroys in humans consciousness and the future. Karl Marx, Nikola Tesla, Einstein, Balfour, Huxley, Orwell, Turing and 20th Century Physicists/Economists - should be forgiven for thinking their systems can last forever. Finite fossil fuels are dangerously hypnotic to humans, their consciousness, reasoning and mental capacity. Humans were not ready morally, ethically and intellectually to start the mass extraction of fossil fuels with the advent of the steam engine 300 years ago. The Magna Carta requires today overhauling - adding to it the right for humans to understand what Energy really is - before any other commandment; “In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future” (2017).
I wonder if the presence of each figurine in the mass graves was actually the depiction of the specific Reptoid which ate the clusters of human victims that were all unfortunately buried together?
The Sumerian relics were already there for millenia. Just ask the local guides who guided the British Archeologists. It's been centuries since the end of the British Empire, but the arrogance still shows unfortunately. "Discovery" is stretching it.
A call recently voiced to form a Council of Wisdom, taking over the challenged, overwhelmed and troubled United Nations' responsibility in Mesopotamia today. Unlike Ms. Bell, driven by geopolitics, the proposed Council of Wisdom is inspired and guided by the most recent understanding of the laws of Thermodynamics; "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017). The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and Oxford - can play a leading role in the initiative, inviting minds into the new entity, like Jim Al Khalili, Alison Shan Price and their class of thinkers. The Council is likely to be the blueprint replicated for many other nations, progressively - as the world is quickly entering today the post fossil fuels era of reckoning, mourning and wisdom.
They have found the mummified remains of these beings in Peru in 2017. They ARE/WERE real. Any videos of them have been taken down on RU-vid. Gaia website has coverage of them being tested. ALL American institutions refused to test these remains. Russians cooperated. Spread the word!
🤺☦🇷🇺1. Chaldeans were the first tribes descended from Arpachshad 2. Chaldeans were ALWAYS inhabiting southern Mesopotamia (Sealand, Ur...), and that was their area among the Sumerians. 3. At Abraham's time (Ur III) they were already gaining control assimilating into Sumerian and Akkadian culture, until their Kassite dynasty took total control for 400 years, and then later their next Chaldean dynasty of Nebuchadnazzer's created the new Babylonian empire. Kaldu = Kashdites = Kassites = Chaldeans
🤺☦🇷🇺Finally someone with knowledge, who understands that the Kassites were a Chaldean dynasty which has nothing to do with Zagros mountains. 1. Chaldeans were the first tribes descended from Arpachshad 2. Chaldeans were ALWAYS inhabiting southern Mesopotamia (Sealand, Ur...), and that was their area among the Sumerians. 3. At Abraham's time (Ur III) they were already gaining control assimilating into Sumerian and Akkadian culture, until their Kassite dynasty took total control for 400 years, and then later their next Chaldean dynasty of Nebuchadnazzer's created the new Babylonian empire.
@@nongbet6231 Yes. I am fluent in the Hebrew text and the original name is Cashdi which is derived from Keshed (Abraham's brother Nahor son) and that was derived from Arpachshad (ancestor of all Chaldeans)
@@EasternOrthodox101 that is awesome. Btw I am actually from India, a Khasi tribe. Just recently I came to know that some of the Chaldean traditional costume (especially if I Google Karemlesh Chaldean)is very similar to our traditional costume including the yellow-red colour. And also the intriguing part is that the word for God in my Language Khasi , we called him 'BLEI' which is also similar to ancient Middle Eastern God 'BAAL' or 'BIL'. (
@@nongbet6231 That's great. Look, the reason why your Indus Valley, which is simply an extension of the Sumerian civilization is linked with the Chaldeans is because the Chaldeans were living always among the Sumerians in South Mesopotamia and embraced their culture until they eventually ruled over them. But you are not the same race as them. Sumerians are haplogroup L (Hamitic Cushite tribe) and Chaldeans are haplogroup J1e (as Arabs Jews and all descendants of Abraham and his family), and are the later Semitic descendants of Arpaxshad: descendants of Nahor's - Keshed. But the original direct descendants of Arpaxshad were haplogroup CDEF which no longer exists. What is your haplogroup?
Tenney is the first speaker in this series that properly projected his voice so that we might hear him. The other videos with other spekers need to all be rerecorded with speakers who can project their voices.
Who cares? Finally someone nails it and telling you that the Kassites were a Chaldean dynasty, so say thank you! Besides him, all the ignorants don't even know a simple thing like that.. 🤦♂️
If two peoples, the Sumerians and Akkadians, speak radically different languages, isn’t it reasonable to conclude those peoples are unrelated to each other? After all, we take the fact that Basque is a non-Indo-European language as evidence that Basque ancestors have quite different origins to most other Europeans; and, conversely, that if languages are related, such as Polynesian languages and indigenous Taiwanese, that the speakers have a common origin.
I tend to agree with your main points but linguistics is essentially a guideline to migration not a 1 to 1 model of it. You can have two distinct people groups meet and intermix while maintaining both languages. You can also force a native population to speak /write a foreign language while intermixing or not. Plenty of the world speaks English but don’t have any or much Germanic ancestry. Maybe Akkadian was a lingua Franca …
@SamedMuratagic27 It's hard for a population to completely give up its native language unless for one that has a similar underlying grammatical substrate. For example, Aramaic replaced Hebrew, and then Arabic replaced Aramaic because they're not dissimilar. Romanian OTOH, despite over 1,000 years of being surrounded by Slavic language speakers, remains Latin, although it has been influenced. Turkish by and large replaced Greek in Asia Minor - although Romeyka still, barely, survives - but, I would posit, because of religious motivation. English largely replaced Irish in Ireland, but only after centuries of domination and settlement. Chinese heavily influenced Korean, but never replaced it because of fundamental differences. English is spoken all over the world now, but, at a guess, its penetration is shallow and would likely vanish as completely as Koine Greek vanished from the Middle East if the centres of power shifted. My point is it's not so easy for one population to switch to another language unless that language is fairly similar to its own.
Collins's summary of racist theory pretty neatly also summarises current racist theory, masquerading as progressiveness. In the current Newspeak "progressive" means (in Oldspeak), "regressive" or even "reactionary".
"Geography is more important than History" - Stanford's historian Ian Morris Christopher Columbus age is most likely to be undone and America returns to itself, to America - owing to the severe depletion of fossil fuel reserves over time - to the ground - by the hour. In contrast, Baghdad is likely to return back into the scene - for no reason other than its location and latitude under the sun - Energy. The West foolishly thought that if rivers flowing into Mesopotamia are blocked, population in Iraq today decreases, oil consumption reduced and more of it would be spared for export - serving well the ongoing Energy Musical Chairs Game. No matter how that is viciously done by the agency of war and social engineering, depopulating and displacing tens of Iraqis since 1980, Iraq's population today is increasing by 10 millions a decade, minimum. The Sun is the main culprit behind this 'anomaly'. BISI and its peers are actually entering today their golden age, unleashing all the intellect and charm of studying History - empowered now by new findings in Physics and Natural Science; "Energy, like time, flows from past to future" No wonder, Wailing is something attributed to Iraq and the Middle East - the Jews know it and practicing it, Muslims know it and practicing it, and before them Gilgamesh knew it - all mourning what humans have done to themselves. This time wailing what humans have done to themselves destroying all fossil fuel reserves to the ground in 300 years - for nothing - when they should have lasted for 3000 years - plus. BISI and alike are very naturally positioned today to communicate the need to default back to Wisdom and the value/role/function of awakening and 'Wailing' - worldwide. A Globalisation, that propagates like ether, rather than by B-52 bombers, aircraft carriers and tanks - therefore materialises - naturally. i.e. Baghdad is 'Global' again - owing to the Sun and laws of Physics. Thanks Professor Hugh Kennedy and BISI - well done.
Fascinating Dr Stephanie Dalley's message here can also be taken a clear call to initiate today a campaign to remove hydro dams built last decades in Turkey and Iran to block rivers flowing into Mesopotamia - which their constructions were financed, blueprinted and/or encouraged by the West. The greatest Gigawatts of electricity generated from the biggest one of those is 3 or so - an amount that can be saved by not leaving the lights in empty rooms on, unnecessarily. BISI should be forking - The School for Speciesism and Certainty Studies - Baghdad. This new sunshine-latitude discipline will be dealing with the discovery of - what went wrong with our outgoing Western Civilisation, leading it to its own demise, taking with it all humanity to square one in Wisdom? Energy - or the misunderstanding of it. While Oxford handles the heavy-lifting of the subject, Cambridge should be brave enough and acknowledge that with trauma, Consciousness in humans evolve over time, and reserve the spot next to Isaac Newton for; "Energy, like time, flows from past to future" - the novel contribution from Iraq - coming today in the mix. I feel that in the process, BISI is one of the best entities positioned to craft a new 'religion' for the World, based on the crucial role of Wisdom coming from the past, such as: "For the scum disappears like froth cast out; while that which is for the good of mankind remains on the earth" - Quran
Energy and dealing with it in sunshine-latitudes, where Sumer and other Mesopotamian cities located, and how that formed social consciousness - should be given a fair gravity in research, from now on. We now understand that, traumatised, out of the last ice age, the European mind has dealt with finite fossil fuel reserves - like no tomorrow - to total depletion in just 300 years. Would the attitude be different if sunshine-latitudes were in charge of Civilisation today - knowing those people are who have originally coined the concept of "Seven years of great plenty... Then there will come seven years of hunger and famine" and Gilgamesh's great loss of eternity? Can one articulate why it is sunshine-latitudes who again have become first in coining today that: "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).
Nicely composed presentation. Thank you very much BISI and Dr. al Rashid. Understandably, historians try to humanize past cultures in a way that the 21st century West can relate to. We tend to think that everyone is like us and always has been. However, having encountered dramatic differences in the thinking and behavior of people in current cultures around the world makes me skeptical that ancient cultures much resembled ours. Religion/worldview infuses cultures - it still does. These ancient 'medical" texts expose that relationship.
I always wondered if any "archaeology" in any form recognised today was ever performed by our ancient ancestors during 3rd - 1st century B.C? Surely they were as inquisitive as ourselves. Edit: Not including treasure scavengers.
I have a question for you can you please tell your profesor to come out and debate me to prove sumer is in Iraq, come out and tell the world where the cities are located today all of them. Akkad, Lassa, Umma, Eridu, UR, lagash, Sippa and others I'm waiting
🤺☦🇷🇺1. Chaldeans were the first tribes descended from Arpachshad 2. Chaldeans were ALWAYS inhabiting southern Mesopotamia (Sealand, Ur...), and that was their area among the Sumerians. 3. At Abraham's time (Ur III) they were already gaining control assimilating into Sumerian and Akkadian culture, until their Kassite dynasty took total control for 400 years, and then later their next Chaldean dynasty of Nebuchadnazzer's created the new Babylonian empire. Kaldu = Kashdites = Kassites = Chaldeans
