Dilmun, the Sumerian Shangri-La (Bronze Age Dilmun Civilization of Ancient Bahrain) 

No my friend, you all have a great history and should be proud! Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!

Soo true, somehow people thinks that Arabs were born only after Islam 🤣

@@Mood-fs4vw i 100% agree with you, many people are unaware of our history they just know our Islamic history ( which honesty it is still amazing and all being of the few people that others must learn about you or at least know you, ) they never try to at least to know who were we before Islam, and what we were doing with the 3000 thousand years, who we interacted with what we built what gods we were worshiping , I'm still proud of my ancestors and our Islamic history, they accomplished things that the whole world knows about, and they used their power wisely most of the time, but it would be nice if others, were a bit more interested in our ancient history.

Because anciet Bahrain has nothing to do with modern Bahrain. You are not kindred with anciet Bahrain People

Your country is one of the most amazing on this planet!

Wow, that's awesome, I'd love to do the same someday. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. More come on topics related to Dilmun, stay tuned!

This gives me peace 😊 I hope one day you'll come back here and see how unbelievably it changed. My Uncle started living in Sydney with his Aussie wife around 2003, when he came back last year for few weeks he was dumb founded how different and advanced Bahrain became. The confusing part is that we never felt the change because we've always been here.

@@HistorywithCy a Bahraini here who is very impressed, thank you 😊

@@HistorywithCy dilmun>dimilan>damilan(Tamilan). Yes its Tamil(tamilan) civilisation. The city names ur, magan are all tamil names.

@@HistorywithCy "Elam" is nothing but today "Eelam" in Sri Lanka.

Hi, thanks for stopping by. Yeah I'm sure that's also possible, especially as they there were unloading/reloading ships. I've also read that since ancient times, there were many groups of pirates operating in and around the strait of Hormuz, so that could have also been a factor. As always, thanks so much for your comments, really appreciate them. More to come, stay tuned!

My pleasure my friend, glad you liked this. I am also looking into doing a short one on Magan, but I'm having trouble finding many sources. Will do my best. Thanks again for stopping by and stay safe!

@@HistorywithCy Ohhh thank u, u r very kind if u also could talk About Saba civilisation 1200BCE,the south Arabian kingdom, the people of Saba r the first who innovate dams.also the civilisation was very advanced ❤️

@@browarrior1558 will do my best, I definitely want to cover ancient Arabian civilizations. Hopefully in 2021! Thanks for the suggestions, really appreciate them. Stay safe!

Salaam! I just put out a short video on Magan... I'll look into doing one on Saba soon as well. Thanks for the suggestions, really appreciate them...stay safe!

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but these aren't Arabian civilisations at all, because Arabs weren't over there back then, only After Islam Arabs came out of desert 🏜,Dilmun is highly possible is Dilum or daylam, which After Islam had a period of kingdom named daylamian in Western iran

I'm willing to bet that the more Edenic legends of Dilmun are a product of folk memories of the Persian Gulf basin before the post Ice Age flooding. It's a good geographic candidate for being the origin of the idea of Eden itself. So much more archaeology needs to be done under that sea! One wonders if those people had contact with the other sophisticated people of the same era at Gobekli Tepe or potentially Sundaland. There are tantalizing genetic hints of the latter!

Woah! I didn't know that. And I live in Bahrain!

I often wonder about ancient stories in this respect--- particularly concerning the early Persian Gulf, and the rivers leading into it.--- When you consider how once-thriving ports in the Middle East have silted up--- look at Ephesus, in only two thousand years it's now many miles inland.

@@AF-tv6uf That's so true. Sometimes it just hits me... What if the *Tree of Life* in Bahrain which is over 400 years old is actually using roots from the Garden of Eden (That's if it's true that Bahrain is Garden of Eden as stated in the bible) or roots from thousands of years ago. The tree is literally all alone in the middle of Sahara in Bahrain without any signs of water around it and it's still alive and kicking for 400 years.

@@larrygrimaldi1400 no

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Yeah, I also didn't learn this stuff in school...had to go to uni libraries at the time to learn things that were beyond the textbook. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, appreciate it. More to come, stay safe!

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Oh I feel the same every time I study this stuff...makes takes me back to school when I started studying this... what a great life, then realized I had bills to pay and had to graduate and start working. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it...stay safe!

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Sorry, just saw this. Thanks so much for the feedback, really appreciate it! I wouldn't be surprised as there is a lot of evidence of interaction between IVC and Dilmun. I'm sure many traders must have resided there, kind of like many today live and work in the Gulf region for business opportunities. Anyway, thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!

Thanks my friend, really appreciate it! More to come, haha on Russian history too! Stay safe!

Thanks my friend, but it's success is due to viewers like you. Thank YOU for stopping by and watching these videos, motivates me to make more of them!

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Hi, great to hear from you! My pleasure, was fun to make. I think I'll make one on Magan soon too... that's a place that also comes up in Sumerian and Akkadian texts. Thanks again for stopping by, stay safe!

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Me too, I also wished such stuff was covered when I was younger. Oh well, it's never too late to learn. Thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate it...stay safe!

@@HistorywithCy You too!

Actually many of these names are familiar from school--- and now I wonder why they taught us what were such arcane subjects then in the 7th grade..

Thanks, appreciate the feedback and glad you found the references useful for further study...there's only so much that I can put into these short episodes. As always, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!

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Yeah I agree... I personally don't even think he really controlled Dilmun, probably just assumed suzerainty over it since his Kassite predecessors claimed the same. While there are are a lot of artifacts that have been uncovered in the area of ancient Dilmun from Sumerian up until the Kassite era, I haven't come across any Assyrian objects that have been discovered there. Maybe they're still buried under the sands, who knows. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. More to come, stay safe!

Fake news is ancient.

Perhaps the true meaning of the line is that he controlled trade with those areas.

Kings can claim control without any actual control. That happens all the time. BTW, there is not actual concensus that Meluhha is in India. Maybe some where immediate beyond Elam, or some place in Oman, or Yemen. Who knows. All of those traded with Dilmun through see for millennia.

Glad you enjoyed it, more from the region coming soon, stay tuned!

Thanks! Yeah, most people haven't and it's not mentioned too much, but I was fascinated by it and the place's relationship with the more well-known civilizations of Mesopotamia, so thought it'd be fun to do. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!

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True, in Akkadian, Dilmun is called "Edin" (meaning something like "fertile ground" ) ; the etymological origin of Eden ;)

Yeah I can see that... same thing with the story of Ziusudra and Noah. Thanks so much for stopping by, appreciate it!

What was the sealevel in the persian gulf 6000 years ago.

That is a possibility The desertification of Arabia must have played Huge rule in human migration 8000 years ago That being said We need Y-DNA evidence and Autosomal to see the full picture We have some from ammorites and Canaanites and other Semites in levant But not eastern Semites yet Except for Ebla We need to see Sumerian DNA results and hopefully Arabia as well (dilmun, Al-Magar ...)

@@painterQjensen That may be relevant but either way - by land or sea - they could have colonized southern Mesopotamia.

@@Zebred2001 ofc, often in ancient times, travel over lakes / along rivers, was easier and safer than thick forrests. I just suspect, before the oceans rose, was a wery furtile collected landmass. When th saharas was green, there was aquaducts in southeren saudiarabia and yemen. If, enough of the amazon forrest gets cut, it will make the area more dry/ desert like, and ofc, the areas that profit from the cooling effect, the cloud creation and the rivers effect where it meets the ocean, they will also suffer.

painterQ The sea level 6000 years ago is pretty much where it is now.

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Glad you liked the video. Yeah it comes up now and then in Sumerian and later Babylonian texts, interesting and mysterious place. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!

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Thanks!

Transport by water is usually just much more efficient, it would take a lot of pack animals to carry what you can fit in a single boat. Even today it's cheaper to ship cargo to Australia from the UK than it is to send it by land to Switzerland.

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Hi. Yeah so far I have two: Introduction to the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pKGq56YP98I.html Introduction to India's Vedic Age ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y8-q1ufoYSY.html Any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks again!

@@HistorywithCy sorry, I should have been able to dig that up myself, but thanks!

No problem!

Thanks my goal eventually... I just need to find more info on it. I might put one out on ancient Magan/Makkan soon. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!

@@HistorywithCy as a 🇸🇦 we don’t really know about pre Islamic Arabia beacuse the sands took the artifacts so thanks

@@majid6319 Hi! True, but there are some sources and archaeological sites that have been uncovered, not nearly as many as in Iraq or Syria, but they're there. The things they're not as popular so less interest/funding has been given to excavate them. I'll see what I can find though. Thanks again, stay safe!

Yeah those are great suggestions. Maybe in a separate video...I know that several have requested the Jiroft culture. Thanks again for stopping by, always appreciate it and your comments. Stay safe!

@@HistorywithCy what are the names of the two tributary kings of dilmun on the neo-Assyrian inscription?

@@KeinsingtonCisco They are Uperi who paid tribute to Sargon II and Hundaru who paid tribute to Ashurbanipal. Any other questions, please don't hesitate to let me know...thanks!

@@HistorywithCy I heard of Uperi but Hundaru is quite interesting indeed thanks cheers

These areas are older than the Achaemenid Empire.

Thanks, means I'm doing my job! Glad you're into this more obscure stuff and definitely more of it to come. Thanks for stopping by and stay safe!

DIL'WHOM I'M DYING

السومريين كانو عرباً لذلك تصرفاتهم مثل العرب القدماء (العرب سكان الحاضرة وليس العرب البدو) ، اعلم انكم تقرأون تاريخ مختلف في الغرب بسبب الخلاف السياسي والديني ، ولم يكن هناك شيء مميز في حياتهم

@@esomax5419 I see. Is this a common opinion in arabic lands?

@@beldegrom نعم عند كبار السن بالأخص

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@@HistorywithCy Thanks a lot! :)

I was on the LA SALLE in the late 80s and was a member of the Bahrain Archeological Society. I got to visit alot of these sites.

I’m not an academic but I’m guessing A) old woman was mentioned first because that just happens sometimes and people mention things in various orders B) sick-eyed means blind or eye infection or something C) sick-headed means prime to migraines or headaches or something

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Thanks for watching!

@@HistorywithCy 🙏🏾 Absolutely

Oh nice, always wanted to visit. I'm been close... had a stopover in Doha once. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!

@@HistorywithCy no problem,i enjoy your vids its entertaining actually. i live in Dammam if you know that city im originally from an Oasis city called alhufuf.

That’s cool, do you have any signs of ancient buildings in area? Have you ever found any ancient objects? Or ancient writings? It is possible you are from that area that was cradle of civilisation, you should film some videos of your area. Lmk if you do.?

They do

Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. There's actually an animal called the Arabian wolf that lives in the Gulf region. I'm sure there must have been more of them back in the day. Thanks again for the comments, appreciate them, stay safe!

This is actually a very interesting topic in it self ...because up until the end of the first world war there were Lions,Ostrichers,Gazelle,leopards,Cheetahs,wolf and etc roaming all over arabia and the middle east

In Arabia peninsula there are wolves, dears, leopards, oaks, so much more.

It's the most well-known just like the Gilgamesh story is well as the anuma a leash and ball cycle because it's what's accessible right now when other pieces are going to be found they're going to start coming into light and being known

Lol actually you're right, it does to an extent. If there weren't horns I would have mistaken it for a pig.

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Citation needed. Indians are known to lie left and right without any shame. Please provide some credible evidence with sources.

Bullshit

Dilmun arab

The opposite is true also. Semitic people settled along the west coast of Insdia as well.

@@hassanalzaher3893 That's much later after 300bce

@@Infiniteemptiness You must be one of these typical Indian nationalist guys that throw lies left and right without a shred of evidence. You're the worst on the internet. Unlike your comedic claims, I have read many actual scientific archeological speculations and theorizing that the native Semitic people of East Arabian Civilizations were the ones that colonized and developed Indians at the beginning of the 3rd Millennium BC. Let me quote here some of the typical archeological speculations about India being 'civilized' by people of Dilmun at around 2800 to 2500 BC: From the museum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quote " The Dilmun-Indus equation, if correct, will help to clarify the baffling problem of the origin and rise of the Indus civilization, especially in regard to the ethnic and linguistic affiliation of the Indus people. There is some reason to surmise that the rise of the Indus cities was in the nature of a cultural “explosion” or “revolution” due to the arrival in India of a new ethnic group which had already attained a high degree of civilization. For there is not too much in the remains of the pre-Indus settlements excavated at Harappa, Kot Diji, or Amri, which could be regarded as the forerunner of the Indus cities and towns with their carefully planned buildings and streets, their water cult and purification rites, their well-developed pictographic script, and their bustling water-borne trade. As for the time when this highly civilized people came to India to which it transplanted some of the skills and ideas developed in its original habitat, the likelihood is that it took place early in the third millennium, some time about 2800 B.C., since it must have taken several centuries for the Indus civilization to grow to the size it had become about 2500 B.C. Now it is hardly likely that this people came to India from anywhere but Mesopotamia. For it is in Mesopotamia that we first find a fully developed urban civilization with monumental architecture, a pictographic script utilized for administrative purposes, and flourishing trade relations with neighboring countries by land and sea. " Unquote. The maritime civilization of Sumerian was local, and all actual global maritime connection of Mesopotamians was "strictly" done by non other than Dilmun. Specifically, the civilization of east of Arabia with the two metropolises of Qatif, and Al-Hassa in Saudi Arabia, plus the island of Awal aka Bahrain, along with other smaller islands. Btw, the quote is from 1964 before knowing the Sumerian-text-praised Dilmun was actually east of Arabia. Before that was established, many Indian nationalists, like you, tried very hard to make Dilmun a place in India itself, which we know today is a lie. We all know that Dilmun know is considered the eastern Arabia civilization for sure, started in east of today's Saudi Arabia, then colonized Bahrain island later. Oh and btw, the God of Dilmun Enki is the name of Enek city in Eastern Saudi Arabia today. I literally live there. The city name is well-known locally to be of ancient origin whose meaning was lost. Your cute story of 300 BC is the typical baseless Indian guy spreading lies on the internet without shame. There is this habit of baselessly praising India and get away with it. Well that is fine, until you are confronted by somebody actually resides in the land of Dilmun itself. That shit won't fly. India is 'just' another place on earth that was heavily influenced and colonized by the native people of the Ubaid era in east of Arabia and South of Mesopotamia, for better for worse, that's the most likely actual history.

Thank you!

Hmm, good question. Not sure exactly, but I'm sure there were some changes around 1200 BCE like in other parts of the world and they much have had some effect on Dilmun as well. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!

In the history books of Bahrain (Dilmun) it states that the place was a lush green paradise with fresh water everywhere.

@@tehu3218 Arabia over all was a green lush land with rivers ... before climate changed and became the arid land we know today Kingdom of Dilmun (eastern Arabia) was described as a paradise

Thanks so much for the feedback, really appreciate it. Hmm, I don't recall the name Havillah. Is it a place in the Gulf region?

I liked aliens and Bigfoot as a kid, it was fun at the time

The entire Sumerian Civilization is based off Ancient Aliens... Just because you learned of more evidence of how the people lived doesn't mean the origin is suddenly irrelevant...

@@randolph84brown so the ancient aliens used copper tools?

One day I will, thanks for the suggestion and for watching!

no sumrian was arabs

If anything Kurds are trying to steal the history of Semites and pre-semite Mesopotamians. That is pathetic. The common words are because Kurds settled in Iraq and appropriated many words from that land. Not the opposite. Kurds were nomadic iranics until the last millennium BC.