Who were the Elamites? History of Ancient Elam 

Epimetheus Persian gulf my brother, not THE GULF. U’re an educated person cmon

Using the ancient coastline is a sign of quality, of love of details (and details do matter a lot). IMO if the royals were matrilineal, all society was, there's no reason to have been different. A lot of Neolithic populations through the World are or have been matrilineal, for example the Iroquois, or many African nations as well.

Did you intend the map having the Kassites from the plateau instead of the Zagros? Is there archeology supporting this?

It was actually a common thing in states along the african sahel

Brother make a video about the Arameans, they are still alive, the todays Syriacs.

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*West Asian* is the correct name.

@@resistance-is-growing7632 I don't think so

@@omegaink5635 those countries you Westerns claim to be Middle Easterns are part of Asia, they are Asian countries. Google it and you will see.

@@resistance-is-growing7632 I looked it up, & your not wrong, however I call it the middle East because it's literally in the middle of Africa & west Asia.

LMAO so true

China, Korea, Japan: Hold our wine.

@@ousamadearudesuwa not as old as Mesopotamia.

@@chadthunderstorm8148 you do not get the joke do you?

@@ousamadearudesuwa The joke is wrong, so...

No matter what language was spoken in khuzistan, it would be called khuzi by outsiders.

Robustus True that, but still a possibility

West Khuzestan is almost completely Arab, most of Khuzestan was before the mountain dwelling Lors moved j to the region.

I think the Muslim scholar was talking about the Sumerian language , I think you are talking about Al-Jahiz who is a famous Muslim historian and scientist in Basra city on southern Iraq , I red an article from one of his books and he did said that an unknown language still spoken in the region that is not Aramaic nor Persian .

7afeed Al Sunnah In Khuzestan province only 30% speak Arabic of which 15% are ethnic Arab. The rest are Lurs, Qashqai, Afshar, indigenous Persians, Iranian Armenians, and half of Khuzestan’s population is Bakhtiari.

:D That's Awesome!

@@EpimetheusHistory It's great that you touched on their language. I find it quite fascinating.

im an iranian lor i have many many informations about elamites and history of iran with strong evidences u can give me your mobile phone number to chat in whatsapp or your instagram id i love to share my info with foreigners

@@EpimetheusHistory is Elam Persia?!

@@Toxicremixes will email do?

My take is that Neolithic West Asia was a complex linguistic landscape, with many language families (isolates or near isolates or related to each other in ways too obscure for us to discern) and that some of them expanded outwards: one was the proto-Vasconic, which was surely spoken in Neolithic Anatolia and spread to Europe, another was Elamo-Dravidian (it must be a thing), which expanded to India around the same time, maybe even a precursor of proto-Indoeuropean expanded northwards to the Russian steppe, etc. (more families are involved, certainly the three Caucasian ones, plus Sumerian, plus Semitic plus, proto-Pelsago-Tyrsenian, plus maybe even Nubian and who-knows-what). So that's why we find so many isolates in that region and not so much in Europe or India, where only some of those branches expanded to.

Luis Aldamiz Interesting hypothesis. If it appears to be accurate, Middle-East/West Asia as a whole would indeed really be the cradle of civilization

@@zigzag5198 - It is for sure the craddle of Neolithic for all Western Eurasia, India, North and East Africa. However East Asia, Papua and the Americas had their own independent Neolithic developments. The advent of genetics and especially archaeogenetics made us realize that whole populations migrated in all directions, that it wasn't for the greatest part just people learning from their more advanced neighbors as not so long ago was believed.

@@LuisAldamiz Elam is a pure Tamil word and really supprised to here the same spelling and pronouncian. Tamil is South Indian, one of Dravidian language and the oldest clasical, living language in the world. Tamil researchers believe Mesopotamians, Sumerians should have connection to Tamils.

@@vijayrajasekaram8113 - Tamil is only one of many Dravidian languages, including critically Brahui, which is a fossil from the very first Indian (or South Asian) Neolithic and the Indus Valley Civilization. A single word is useless to show association or not, serious linguists use much longer standardized lists or other even more complicated and difficult methods to discern relationship between languages. But indeed Elamo-Dravidian has been argued for a very long time already and seems very plausible not just from the linguistic but also archaeological and genetic viewpoints. As for the Sumerians they were a different nation with a different language, my personal take is that Sumerian is rather related to NE Caucasian (Chechen and such) via Hurrian but I'm not certain at all, it just seems closer than to others on primary evaluation. Sumerian surely had influence on IVC Dravidian and vice versa but horizontally, via contact and well documented trade. I understand that the word "uru" (city) made it to Dravidian, much as the related word "ili" (and variants: "iri", "uri", "uli", probably from Palestine or the Aegean) made it to the West (Basque hiri, ancient Iberian ili, anicent Aquitanian eli, Tartessian uba, Latin urbs, etc.) This is a very clear case of wanderwort (migrant word, like could be modernly "telephone" or "Internet" or "video" or "nuclear missile"). So beware of too filmsy single-word connections!

Elam is pre-Iranian ;-)

@@Julius1997. I am talking about the area that is now Iran

Persian empire covered Ethiopia to india amazing indeed

@@bayan6325 yup

Baya N India? When?😏😏😏

What do you call learn?

A fellow Elam. 👋

They were very powerful in ancient times, but when the Aryan immigrant tribes appeared, they killed the indigenous people.

Elamites DNA is similar to Dravidians, shares lost of R1a1 gene. Author does not mention it deliberately. It is now well known

@@surendarav8406 nanba, not everything is a conspiracy against tamils. R1a1 is spread all across India, central Asia and Europe. Please check.

@@srikanthxxxxx focus : where it is most intensive and longer back in time. It is in India. Now make your conclusion.

@@surendarav8406 so you would like to pick and choose, so as to suit a specific narrative? That is not how science works. Inferences should be derived from facts. Besides, this whole annoying trend of who came first, who came second is ridiculous. We all came from Africa.

I don't care a damn of your opinion on my observations. What I posted is fairly well known among the informed circles. If you want to throw your mouth , keep throwing. I don't have time to engage in this wasteful hubris of yours. To hide your poor knowledge you are trying to attribute motives. Typical hypocrisy.. Longlive and Effff off. RIP. ( I will not engage you further )

Very true

Lool

@@RokoKaran Stupid Kurd who thinks he is a Mede, Hurrian, Mittani and any other ethnicity Dead civilization because you had no history but only a gypsy

They are

It is one of my favorite. Very well written.

Turks from turkey???

Most of turkeys genetics arent even turkic. Many "turks" are just culturally assimilalted mongolians, arabs, greeks, anatolians, persians, armenians, assyrians, circassians and other caucasus peoples.

I don't know why, but Iranian people usually tend to brag about their long and complicated history compared to Turkic history, and people also tend to like this, as shown with this comment's like count. I fear that people have a stereotypical view of Turks. A view that generalizes Turks as turkroaches and extreme nationalists.

@Volition Iskey Your comment further prooves my point.

@Volition Iskey "Turks literally have no culture" This phrase is so biased and ignorant, yet you cannot even comprehend how abysmal it is. In the contrary, you even support it. About the ruling Persia and being absorbed thing, that is true. Many Turkic dynasties eventually assimilated into Persian customs, yes. However,*if* you are trying to imply that this means Turks have "literally no culture", then that's not true. I am assuming you are implying this since you wrote this immideatly after saying "Turks literally have no culture.".

Mesopotamia is one of the most invaded places on the whole planet. This is why I get annoyed when Iraqis drop their Arabic identity for a "mesopotamian" identity. There is no mesopotamian identity. There were many people who set up their own kingdoms. It was just a land that was too mixed at that point.

The Elamites are closer to the Ahwazi Arabs

Arghun Stockton sa

empire lord Elamites are unknown peoples like sumerians they have nothing to do with iranians

empire lord Hattians are proto Turks

empire lord Hattians used agglutinave language

Golden Horde is Mongols state. not borat kazakh

In tamil Elam means homeland.

India too we use Elam.

Elamites were Semites

Persians are the ancestors of iranians.

Im persian but our grandfather had "khozi"in threir families that mean people of elam

Cilician_ Lion Much love right back to you too from an Iranian! Nothing can shake or brake the bond between Iranians and Armenians. We will always have your back 🇮🇷 🇦🇲 🇮🇷🇦🇲

Cilician_ Lion Elamites were not Iranians , they had an isolated language just like the Sumerian language , I don’t know why the Bible is consider them as Semitic but they might be even tho their language is not . But anyway they(Elamites) are not related to Iranian people by any chance , they are native Middle eastern people just like the Sumerian , Semitic and Egyptian peoples .

Second only to India..

Yes bro whole iranian groups came from thise territories like sarmatians.scythians.alans etc.

4 years late but Iranians, all of them originated from a civilization known as the BMAC culture which was 50% elamite (which is basically 50% zagrossian farmer (~IDENTICAL to caucaisan hunter gatherer) and 50%anatolian farmer) + 50% steppe Indo-European (which itself is a mixture of 50% Caucasian hunter gatherer+ East European hunter gatherer) which came in and intermixed with small ruminants of Western elamite cities making modern day iranians about 70% calcolothic iranian ~elamite and 20-25% steppe (only 10-15% East europe which is like 5% less than the BMAC)

Kush is not a kingdom, it is just an area belonging to Egypt, our craftsmen. The Egyptians ruled it for thousands of years, since King Ahmose

YES!!!!!!! They were and they were also the Sumerians....(not present day Iranians who are Persians).

You idiots. Elamites dont have AASI dna. They dont have dravidian dna. They have nothing to do with Dravidians or indians. Stop stealing middle eastern history.

You idiots. Elamites dont have AASI dna. They dont have dravidian dna. They have nothing to do with Dravidians or indians. Stop stealing middle eastern history.

Wassim Atrissi I think he only makes videos about ancient history.

That would be very intresting!

Wassim Atrissi , Lebanese civil war was most unfortunate

Have a question, is it possible that Elamites were speaking Sanskrit?

@@vmb2697 no bro

@@furyroad028 Thx

@@furyroad028 You're wrong. They were Tamils.. They came from ancient land which sank in Indian Ocean between sri Lanka and India. They were Tamils.

@@imcuteasduc dude go and see the genetic study did on south indian people . Dont come up with your idiotic literature stuffs . Platonic theory already disproved your kumari kandam bullshit

Finally, yes! Dravidian (Elamites) were definitely not Iranian Persians. Yes, they were from Iran, or Middle East/Fertile Crescent, but not Persian. The Fertile Crescent had at least 2 genetically distinct populations; one from Anatolia who eventually went west and spread agriculture to Europeans and the other from Iraq/Iran who went East and spread agriculture to India/Africa. In fact, I think Dravidians were the Proto Afroasiatics. Yet, sadly, it seems many of them believe they are native to India and never left. Nothing could be further from the truth. They founded the world's greatest civilizations. The Sumerian "black-headed ones".

Can you help me

Its a shame elam no longer exists.

@@iaw7406 The destruction of Elam as an independent state is closer to our time than to the founding of their state.

No, they suffered tremendously like any other civilization during this time. Just because they weren’t completely annihilated like the hittites and so had a comparative “advantage” didn’t mean that it wasn’t a time of huge decline for Ashur, Susa, and Anshan.

@@thenoblepoptart Ashwar deserves death, King Nebuchadnezzar and Medibin killed all the Assyrians

Son of Mountain Don’t insult yourself

@@zigzag5198 yeah

The people of Elamites, Jiroft and Medes are not ancestors of modern Iranian people.they did not come with the indo-europeans migration 2900 years ago.

Fortunately the proto-elamite script has just been decyphered. I hope a large corpus of texts is found, and THAT will really change things!

@@hannibalbarca2928 obviously with any population conquering and taken over s region they marry the women, so Iranian people are somewhat connected perhaps matrilineal.

Greetings! My family is from there and I have dim memories of time spent in the region. That was 35 years ago and have not had an opportunity to go back since.

This Elamite approves!

Are you from Ahwaz or Ābādān?

@@cyrusthegreat1893 ahwaz

@@johnsmith-rk5mn nice to meet you bro. I wish this province return to it's golden age

@@chheinrich8486 Clearly the dude doesn't understand that: a) Persia = Elam b) Elamites were conquering Mesopotamia just like everyone else

@@EasternRomeOrthodoxy yeah right,

​@@EasternRomeOrthodoxyPersia has nothing to do with Elam Elam is khuzestans history

@@shutruk-nahunte3309 🤦Get education cl0wns...

Sumer is far more interesting

Lmao yeah, why did he repeat the same advert again?

Ey Doruk, is great to see ya here.

@@stegotyranno4206 Hello!

@@thedoruk6324 its super cool how we both have such similar interests

@@stegotyranno4206 Agreed glad to know the great channels have good people

اون استان ایلام اصلا در محدوده ی عیلامی ها نیست ۹۰ درصدش و توسط رصا شاه ایجاد شد و بار سیاسی داره برای جدا کردن لرها از هم

@@dreamlandish میدونم

Susa is Persian name

@@xerxes8191 actually shusha is what Elamites called the city so it's not persian but I know what you mean

@@dreamlandish please read the inscriptions of Darius the great

John smith Persian culture got heavily influenced by the Mesopotamian one , Elamites were already eliminated and their civilization vanished by the Assyrians before Persian tribes cane to the region .

Elamits were among the most influencial Iranians who contributed to the establishment and management of the Persian empire . They basically chose an Iranian/ Persian Id.

Baluchis are the most probable inheritors of the Elamites and there is town ilam in eastern Nepal too

Dravidian

That's what humans do, you learn, adapt amd improve

It is also in vouge as "Aliya Santhana" in coastal Karnataka. Aliya = Nephew, Son-in-law, Santhana = progeny, generation. All over South India, Maharastra, Gujrat the relation ship between maternal uncle and the nephew is very special, they have a important place in their lives and all the life rituals.

@@senaeco Aliya is a word in Malayalam too which means brother in law. Santhana is of Sanskrit origin which means progeny I believe

The name Elam was an Akkadian Exonym. The Elamites called their own land "Hatamti".

@@thenoobprincev2529 Absolutely, at the same time. There are cognates which are common to Dravidian languages and Semitic languages since ancient times.

As a north indian hindi speaker i think Dravidian languages are just too underrated 😬

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That's Rammeses II on your profile pic right? Just curious.