Nearly six million Assyrian Christians dot the world. Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC - in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14). There it says: * “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."
I remember taking an anthropology class where the professor said that cultures often used the teeth and the bone of the animals being depicted to carve or paint them. Is it possible the fine details were done with such materials? I don't know the relative hardness of the stone, which is why I'm asking.
It's worth pointing out that these lions were hunted to extinction by man. I'm no lion expert but I was told by an expert that you can tell by the lion's mane that runs along their abdomen that they are an extinct species that was hunted in this region in ancient times.
@@redtobertshateshandles - If nothing really matters why bother me? In all seriousness, Nothing does really matter. That doesn't mean I'm going to sit silently in a corner for the rest of my life. It means I am going to take what I can from existence while I exist. Including knowledge. Then it is into dust I go. That is just a fact. "Nothing really matters", like "all things will pass" means don't sweat it as in the end it really doesn't matter. People live, people die, empire rise, empires fall, Or as Shakespeare put it. "The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a trace behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
If you want to look at this you can take a virtual tour with Google or the British Museum website and you can find high resolutions images easily online and look at them one by one.
Nearly six million Assyrian Christians dot the world.
Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC - in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14).
There it says:
* “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."
Thank you for uploading this program. Another reason this is one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
Gladly done..thanks 4 your appreciation !
LOVE THIS!!!!!!
I remember taking an anthropology class where the professor said that cultures often used the teeth and the bone of the animals being depicted to carve or paint them. Is it possible the fine details were done with such materials? I don't know the relative hardness of the stone, which is why I'm asking.
It's quite possible as they were hunted to extinction
العراق مهد الحضارات القديمة وأقدم حضارة في العالم وتعتبر حضارة السومريين في مدينة أور من أقدم الحضارات والمدن
It's worth pointing out that these lions were hunted to extinction by man. I'm no lion expert but I was told by an expert that you can tell by the lion's mane that runs along their abdomen that they are an extinct species that was hunted in this region in ancient times.
Never mind. Nothing really matters.
@@redtobertshateshandles - If nothing really matters why bother me?
In all seriousness, Nothing does really matter. That doesn't mean I'm going to sit silently in a corner for the rest of my life. It means I am going to take what I can from existence while I exist. Including knowledge.
Then it is into dust I go. That is just a fact.
"Nothing really matters", like "all things will pass" means don't sweat it as in the end it really doesn't matter. People live, people
die, empire rise, empires fall,
Or as Shakespeare put it.
"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a trace behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Regional subspecies are to be expected in any widespread animal type.
They had hardened steel. The first great Iron Age empire! Big mistake.
Saved from Isis explosions. Friendly, cuddly explosions.
What is he saying we don’t what the world was is he series you read and write coz of Assyria we knew the world before you wear even born mr
what I see is loooted cultural treasures.
For Gosh sakes keep the camera work STILL so one can actually look at the pieces...
A definite over zealous camera work
If you want to look at this you can take a virtual tour with Google or the British Museum website and you can find high resolutions images easily online and look at them one by one.
Use the pause function without the camera movement you would be solely focused on a lion's anus
You're lucky they don't have that Blackadder tosser.
Im here for school
All stolen
Not a, but a monument to pillaging and looting.
Fundamentalists probably would have destroyed them. Give me a break with your bleeding heart b.s.
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Ashur Banipal was an Arab man
Perhaps, but in his own mind, he was very British in his outlook.
@@theallseeingmaster u mean he was an imperialist too?
@@FRAGGARED I haven't a clue, do you?
theallseeingmaster no but am not the one calling him british
@@FRAGGARED Nor did I. Just his outlook.