Who Was Buried in the Royal Tombs of Ur? 

😮 I too, felt dubious about attributing the noble quality of disseminating unembellished truth to a mere historian. I postulate that he received Anonymous guidance from an Elite member of The Shadow government whose membership is, at least partially comprised of technologically advanced alien life forms possessing higher IQ and therefore exponentially greater capacity for logical deduction and acute comprehension of the futility of intuitive reasoning end speculative fantasy.

‘Ancient’ aliens I’ll have you know

Hey! He’s a friend of mine. Miano that is.

And much more 3 dimensional.

I have been to Egypt before, and as long as you have a good guide, they will keep you from being harassed by vendors. Future trips will depend on how successful this one is. Re: marriage, it is still on! But it has been delayed slightly until we can afford it.

Good to hear on all accounts! Yes, I have been following you for a while and noticed that the last time you went to Egypt, you didn't have any trouble with being harassed, so wondered why that was. Looking foward to your upcoming marriage announcement. 😊

Human sacrifice was not standard practice in Mesopotamia, the Royal Tombs of Ur are in many ways exceptional, not standard. Meanwhile, there are plenty of documented cases of human sacrifice in Europe during the Bronze and Iron Age, as well as the Middle Ages (witch burnings are a form of human sacrifice).

Lol what you think gladiators are doing it's human sacrifice not for some divine duty but for mere fun of population. Many thousands of humans, animals are killed for fun of people in roam.

Given your poor grammar here I surmise an ESL course is probably warranted..... You can begin by Googling the term "grave robbing". Archeological digs which were approved by national authorities + where artifacts end up in museums = are not grave robbing........

and Zionists and their sponsors of evangelical christians still believe a roman wall to be the leftover of Suleiman temple. and they think by building third temple they will bring the second coming of jesus by a push button by the armageddon... there more crazier stuff out there.

Such a cute comment...

So do I. He annoys me. He touts the narrative as given, yet we are discovering new things all the time…

​@@toucheturtle3840DM keeps up with changes in the state of the art in the fields he is covering. The narrative you refer to is blistery channel 'day don't want you to no dis' malarkey.

@@toucheturtle3840 I was annoyed by adults when I was still a child, too.

@@notmyproblem88 We never stop learning. Alternative viewpoints are often smacked down by those whom have been classically trained, only later to be proven otherwise. It’s how scientific method should work.

Just needs to clean the camera so that smudge on the bottom right isn’t there anymore.. ;)

@@chrisl4999 🤣true, but I wanted to recognize the effort.

@@geisteswissenschaft oh absolutely. The quality has gone up tremendously.

Along with fall of Civilizations, Historytime Pete Kelly and many more.

I lost my retainer when I was 13 and my dad whooped me something fierce

@@seanh0123 they’re expensive, I would’ve whooped your ass too

If its one of your favorites you probably already know Artifactually Speaking, but just in case you dont then youd love it. Dr. Hafford is a part of that iranian-american archaeology team and headed a dig at Ur for at least one season.

​@@hannahbrown2728 well I didnt.... Thanks for the lead!

History with CY is the other one in my tip 3

@@ToyoBali-yn5gn I like that - 'tip three'! Giving a tip on top sites and coining a phrase..... I am going to check both it and artifactually speaking out now.

@@hannahbrown2728 thanks for the tip. I have broad (pre)history interests. Have you tried Stephan Milo or David Howe?

Yes.

I think you mean tUr. 😅

@@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer Or maybe "U", "R".🤗

You may exit through the Gift Shop, please and thank you!

Yes. Very well. He does look great. 😉

So you seem to believe that "you" decide what is supposed historical fact or nor - based upon nothing more than your subjective perception of a debate on a podcast no less = really........ 🤦 I guess by your "logic" here and approach to science and answering questions that lollipops fall from the sky if someone on YT claims thusly in a manner you find compelling and are willing to believe it.......... 🤣🤷 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bufTna0WArc.htmlsi=lrkuEDKS-AEDgBXA

Repeating assertions doesn't qualify as evidence. Repeatedly misrepresenting the findings, consensus and methodology of various academic fields doesn't qualify as evidence. Asserting that various experts can't explain X doesn't count as evidence. That last point really is the one that showcases what it means to have evidence: When X is the assertion that ancient people Y _could not_ possibly have created/ achieved Z. With the secondary assertion that actually, ancient people Y really could, and so _did_ in fact create Z. But! only after the intervention of the as yet, undocumented in the literature, people A, from the as yet, undocumented in the literature, civilization B If someone is claiming that based on what they've discovered, it is _so_ obviously the factual case, that ancient people Y could not have created Z, then all anyone making this simple claim need do is: Firstly, present all of the evidence and research that led them to the (presumably difficult to process) understanding that literally _all_ of the accepted _published research_ , and the currently held consensuses derived from it, that has the appearance of continuing to be well supported by the ongoing works of countless actual experts, within multiple rigorous scientific, and academic fields, are all wrong. They are all using faulty frameworks and models, they really only seem to comport to predicted outcomes from testing hypotheses. I'm no expert, but I am 100% confident that ALL of the scientific awards and prizes are just one well presented case away! Either before or after being awarded a Nobel prize, doesn't matter at that point really, it should be a trivially simple matter of presenting all of the research done, along with the corroborating evidence that supports and demonstrates the strength of the newly proposed model, based on the overwhelming evidence for all the, formerly mere assertions, now the working hypotheses and models of multiple scientific and academic fields, that ancient people A existed, whose society was one of unprecedented knowledge and mobility for an ancient culture, comparable with modern, and moreover only within the last century's or so, most advanced knowledge and technology... And whatever else it is they they've got such slam dunky evidence for. There is eternal glory for overturning multiple scientific paradigms, there for the taking. I'm sure it's only a matter of time; they're probably busy working on putting their irrefutable case together.

Nice for you, for sure, but not a good idea really. I hope that wasn't allowed much, and has been stopped altogether now.

@@cattymajiv We had local Iraqi tour guides and certain areas were restricted or roped off. I don’t think it was done irresponsibly. Even during a war the site was treated with respect.

Was there any looting?

@@jackholman5008 I can’t speak to what happened during the first few years of the war, but there was no looting or destruction while I was there. It just seemed like what I’ve seen in videos of a tourist site in Egypt or something. The zigurat, excavated tombs, walls from the old buildings that had been partially rebuilt, etc. The area wasn’t inside the gates of the main base, but in an exterior area controlled by the military. It didn’t look like there was any active archeology taking place, just trusted locals who managed it and gave tours that we paid for.

I recall once upon a time traveling through that neighborhood of Tallil - but we did not hang around too long as we were "passing through" as it were...... 😋 Glad you were okay. p.s. - that area of Iraq is Shia tribal land in the south. The looting as alluded to took place in areas under ISIS control which were the Sunni tribal areas as well as some of the Kurdish zone in the north.

Except Natzi Germany.

Their methods were indeed pretty brutal back then.

I love Dr Sledge

Ha!

Assyrians did this. They left us some records talking about it. Whenever there was a bad omen about the health or life of the king, they would replace him with a substitute, kill the substitute, and cancel out the bad prophecy.

@@WorldofAntiquity hmmm... Did it work...? According to them of course... ALSO-- major kudos to you for your channel... I like the informal, conversational flow of your narrative, but you don't sacrifice cogency and scholarship... I HATE when channels have a jokey, flippant tone; they're NEVER funny or outrageous and I just click away...

Not the Gulf being bigger = the river deltas have shifted. You see the same coincidentally with other major rivers such that over the centuries as silt was deposited once areas near the coastline find themselves more inland today.

Oh ok, gotcha. Thx

That is the u sound in Sumerian.