Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur 

It really is an incredible and beautiful site. For a few years my band played USO shows all over the world and finally made it to Iraq in 2005. We flew commercially from L.A. to Kuwait, played a show at Camp Virginia, then flew Military to Tallil, Iraq. After getting settled in one of the reps for the base said "There are some pretty awesome ruins just outside of the wire and we set up a tour if you want to go.". I was ecstatic as ancient human history is my favorite subject. My singer Brandt and I went and the other 2 decided to stay in their rooms to sleep (which the kick themselves over to this day). We started at the Ziggurat and it was breathtaking, especially being at the top and looking at the rest of the site. We then went to the Temple of Nanna and entered through "the world's oldest known arched doorway.". From there we went to the ruins of the Palace and that's where the story gets crazy. Brandt and I noticed the horizon to the West was black. When we asked about it they said it was a sandstorm, but too far away to be concerned about and that it was at least an hour and a half away. They turned out to be wrong. Having confidence that the storm wasn't an issue, we next went to the tombs of a King on one side and Queen on the other. Amazing brick work and worth a search. As we descended the stairs towards the King's tomb a huge owl shoots out of the doorway and floats away from us showing off it's giant wingspan. As if the experience wasn't epic enough. After visiting the King's tomb and inspecting some owl pellets left by our friend, we went and took a quick look at the Queen's tomb before taking the wooden stairs back up to surface level. We had been down in the tombs for maybe 30 to 45 minutes and as we surfaced, we had the hard realization just how wrong they were about the sand storm. The sand in Iraq is incredibly fine, referred to as "Moon Dust", and had the consistency of baking flour. It was everywhere and to make matters worse, it started to rain. Big fat drops of desert rain, mixing with the super fine sand, and turning into falling mud. We're in a Biblical city, after seeing a huge owl fly out of a King's tomb, in the middle of a sand storm, getting pelted by giant drops of falling mud. It was the time of my life! We quickly ran up to the structure that they believe to be Abraham's house, took a quick look, and quickly jump into the van to cut our visit short, and head back to the base. It was a wonderful day. If you made it this far, thank you for sharing in my memories and I hope you have an awesome day!

This was an amazing film, very informative and so well done. Thank you for sharing so those of us who’ll never get to go there can get a sense of this ancient treasure.

I wish This documentary is longer.

Those who wish to visit this city will offer him help I live this city and its access is very safe

Absolutely stunning & beautiful narrated video.✨💗👌

Thank you so much, that was very interesting.

I like Ur video.

Very nice, on par if not nicer than the Penn museum's one.

Very good. Any more going to be made ?

Where did they get the pich from?? No trees seem to be found anywhere. I do understand we are talking T of years ago. Do you have any info on that? Please share. Ty.

Sarah Kelly, did you know that Indiana Jones was modeled after an archaeologist named Vendyl Jones? He became a noahide after many of his discoveries. Just want to say I love all your comments they're spot-on.

1:28 why does this guy have lizard eyes

The reason for burial is to leave people in peace to go poking around in private burials is a disgrace and could actually y cause bad luck

THE FIRST CIVILIZATION STARTED IN MESOPOTAMIA. TIGRIS AND EUFRATES. GARDEN OF EDEN.

The land of the Satan's also known as Anunnaki or watchers in hebrews.

I feel like this is another history lie

BS about the Garden of Eden being there, is in South East Africa!

My daughter cried when ISIS smashed artefacts from Museums in Iraq. One of the worst things was the destruction of the Library, made of stone covered in Cuneiform which was scattered. However much has been done since then to put it all together as many of the writings were recorded elsewhere. I was impressed by a very young man recreating and mending the large statues of the bulls with human heads and arms. He was so enthusiastic and doing such a good job. People who live in these places care as much as we do and very much to put things right. When war has gone, people will want to visit and spend their money in Iraq to see all these wonderful artefacts. I am sorry for the whole world has lost the oldest remains of Civilisation in the whole world. However the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh has been put together again, and Nineveh is the true location of the Hanging Gardens. Read, "The Mystery of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon" by Stephanie Dalley, who writes and reads Cuneiform. Cynthia McLaglen

Those who wish to visit this city will offer him help I live this city and its access is very safe

Hello.. I am Sinan Labib from Mesopotamia, the land of Ur, Babylon and Uruk, the land of Sumer, Assyria and Akkad. From the lineage of Nimrod, Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi, the country of the Prophet Adam and Abraham, the land of Noah.. I regret what happened to my country.

I feel so sorry for Iraq. So many of it's treasures were wrecked because of the war. A little like the art etc that was destroyed in various museums in Berlin in World War II. Plus now with ISIS destroying ancient art in Iraq it's just terrible. I saw ISIS on TV just taking hammers etc to the beautiful statuary of Mesopotamia. What a shame

What about the antediluvian high-tech Sumerian artifacts found there? What happened to them? Why did U.S army send a brigade and tanks to this ziggurat? Only to protect some historical cuneiforms?

I love southern Iraq, I love its culture, I love the civilization of Sumer and I'm really grateful to be one of them.

Excellent! One of the better Archeological presentations I've seen so far on RU-vid...Well Done!

This is great! Thank you so much. We've been studying Ur and this was a nice break from the textbook.

Really shows why the Bible' s account of Abram/Abraham's life was so significant. He trusted God enough to leave a sophisticated society. Abraham was such an unusual man that the Bible refers to him as a supreme example of faith in God, in spite of his flaws.

I saw this exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum 10 years ago and it made quite an impression. I'm so glad this is on RU-vid to revisit!

In 2003 I was fortunate to visit Ur, and actually live near the ruins for a short time. Unfortunately it was during a war that I was there to fight. It was an amazing experience either way. At the time I really didn't understand the significance of the place that I was staying. I later realized it's importance, and would love to return someday if possible.

i think once way back in b.c it was peaceful place and people and then bad people began taking them over,

You only ever hear about the ziggurat, not a word about the ziggumouse though!

Thank you ! It`s the best I found about Ur. And the monody-music is so well chosen.

Very interesting, I wasn't aware that the city Ur had queens, It would be a interesting documentary if there was some back story regarding their Queens.

Very well represented . Thank you . It is a Weird feeling to be from this land . It feels So powerful yet so painful to be from Mesopotamia…

I really want to go to the places where these ancient civilisations located and travel back in time. However, there are wars and political unrest everywhere and it's not safe for us to go as a small group. Hopefully one day in future I would be able to visit these ancient sites and they are still there, not destroyed by wars or natural disasters. P.S. The song sang by a woman in the background is amazing! It kept distracting me from listening to the words of the speaker. How wonderful singing it is! I wonder what language it is in and who the singer is.

العراق بلد الحضارات وأول حضارة للبشرية في أور. الناصرية

Imagine what life was like for Abraham and his wife Sarah when they lived in Ur. The houses were three stories tall and very nice, compared to houses in other towns.

This is so well done - I would love to have a Library of these works! Fabulous short -

Ur is the short version for "Uri" the maori word for offspring or descendents

The depth of those sites is what's got my head spinning.

The doc interesting and the music was lovely

Ur ancient known in Bible which Abraham started from

Thank for showing the birthplace of ur, prophet abraham in the bible I love 💘 history!

Abraham, Ram and the Thicket art. Fantastic.

The past is for all of us to share and God has changed names many times over a long period of time, so what gives any religion the right to destroy any artefacts that their own God had built while going through a different cycle in his or her time frame. So many Gods have died and been resurrected and the names changed since the earliest Gods ELL or Ahura Mazda , meaning to me , like the pharaohs, they anoint their son or daughter their position as they move on. The Taliban had no right to destroy the giant Buddha in Afghanistan and ISIS in the Iraqi museums. ISIS are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. They say they destroy valuable artefacts by saying they are idolatry but really sell them to collectors to fund their unholy war that will get them judged the way fanatics from every religion will be judged in the end. I have no doubt that Israeli, Christian and Islamic fanatics will one day realise going overboard in any religion was a waste of time because God only wants them to be nice to everyone else and they took it all the wrong way

Those graves should have been left inviolate. The cost of opening them will be terrible.

A wonderful, extraordinary documentary! I would like to see more of this type of documentary. It is interesting that you say that discovering the tomb of queen Puabe is the most important discovery in archeology when most of the people are swarming for king Tut's grave. I think it is because most people are fascinated by Egypt. But the tomb of the queen Puabe surpasses everything. This documentary was fascinating.

Islam peacefully destroying everything it encounters lmfao.

Fabulous production. Thank you. I am wondering how deep those pits were that he dug? Peoples/diggers are descending into those pits on several layers of stairs. Seem to be at least 70 feet deep. How did he guess the existence of such tombs so deep into the ground??

Question to the Iraqis: Why do you think that your country's importance came upon converting to Islam? Do you not know your ancient history? Do you not understand that your ancient ancestors began civilization as the world knows it today? Islam did not begin civilization, created law, architecture, astrology, math, geometry, writing, etc.. Embrace your heritage. You have so much to be proud of.

The Garden of Eden was wiped off the face of the earth in the wholesale destruction of "First World" geography by the Great Flood of Noah's time...

And he stold our stuff

Does anybody else think that when north africa had a huge shallow lake and regular rain that this area may have looked alot different as well?

Well that is so amazing and scary at the same time but that ribbon in that girl's hand it meant something more she would have had time to put it on

La musique est désagréable,c bien dommage,il manque les sous titres.

10 years later and still stunning.

this is good i guess im learning this from my ancient history class

Rejoice and be glad

When are they ever going to dna analysis of the queen of Ur

It's so helpful that you take a moment to mention its present day Arabic name because no one here refers to the site as "Ur" from whom I've met so far. The guy at my hotel here in Nasiriyyah had no idea what I was referring to even while speaking Arabic but using the place name Ur.

Fantastic, a great doco.

American come to every country just to stealing this thing. So tricky

they worshipped fallen angels who are still causing probs on earth, but one did not call him Abraham

i remember reading an article in a magazine about this queen they found , lapis and gold and pitch everywhere , and no sign of ancient technology accept the wheels on the ox cart .

The garden off eden, so beautiful. Thank you!

my ancestor. very fascinating.

no respect for the dead looters

This STORY is HORRIBLE! THIS WICKEDNESS should be thrown into the deepest part of the sea, Not somewhere in a museum. Who wants to remember the devils trickery?

I saw the crown at an exhibit in Cleveland, Ohio. It was labeled incorrectly as a headdress because l don't think they could handle the idea of a queen, only a king. It was very large, and clearly it is the crown of a queen, and meant to be seen at a distance. The leaves and flowers probably fluttered in the breeze. They were really into bulls. The craftsmanship was exquisite. The animal in the thicket was interesting because that was also in the Bible symbolizing the end of human sacrifice, with animals substituted. I am so glad l got to see the exhibit.

Fantistic discoveries of ancient people!

Music is too high and comprehession becomes difficult.

thank you sir

09:40 Incredible what ingenious preservation he achieved to allow future generations to see such a valuable item (a real musical instrument from 5000+ years ago).

They sure loved their lapaslazly 😊

Very well done! 😃

Awesome presentation

Very valuable!!save!!!

The narrator is plagiarizing the work from Penn State University....WORD FOR WORD.

cool

amazing documentary

History's first city's first language of the cuneiform 3,900 years before christ walked the earth

انا من العراق

the music is too loud and annoying

What a wonderful journey into the past

I live near of in nasiriyah

when universities and museums become low base GRAVES ROBBERS

Toot Uncommon.

Dont know half of it ,rome would have sacked the kabba,it didnt exist.Pirates did,to them mohamed wrote the book..

Most people like to be ignorant that Abram came from Ur in Mesopotamia. You said it in the intro! 👍🏽

so cool

“1939 óta kérelmezem a Magyar Tudományos Akadémiát, hogy küldjön nekem egy magyar nyelvészt. A Sumir nyelv - 7.000 éves volta dacára - ma is elképesztő egyezéseket mutat a mai magyar nyelvvel. Kutatásaim alapján tudom, hogy pl. nyelvtanát nézve a Sumi r nyelv 56 nyelvtani sajátosságából 53 megvan a mai magyar nyelvben.

Those Pyramids were there before Mesopotamia...Just sayin😮

Very informative and interesting! I stumbled upon this in my search for wisdom literature.

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Moon Gods, wow. Something new for me.

What is the material from Afghanistan? Laperlagaty?

What a discovery , tireless efferts made by the the two , to bring back to life "the lost world " . While finding brings interest the gold carving work , the musical instruments used during that time . Well just touching a bit on how fabric n colours , wood used , computer fed images like , designs ,hight , weight , in how to bring back to life the dresses ,jewellery etc

very nice...thanks for sharing

Mr Robertson thanks for recommending this great vid

Gotta love the US military right. No. God bless you Iraqi people

amazing info& vid