BRITISH MUSEUM: Priceless ASSYRIAN treasures (London)

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  • British Museum - the Assyrian collection, the Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum in London. Assyrian sculptures at the British Museum, London. Let's travel to London and let's visit the British Museum and the galleries containing treasures and monuments from ancient Assyria.
    At the British Museum, we will see large stone sculptures and reliefs were a striking feature of the palaces and temples of ancient Assyria (modern northern Iraq).
    Visit Rooms 6a and 6b of the British Museum to see two colossal Assyrian winged human-headed lions that flanked an entrance to the royal palace of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) at Nimrud. Plus, see a gigantic Assyrian standing lion that stood at the entrance to the nearby Temple of Ishtar, the goddess of war.
    These Assyrian sculptures are displayed alongside fragments and replicas of the huge bronze gates of Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC) from Balawat.
    A Black Obelisk also on display shows the same king receiving tribute from Israel and is displayed with obelisks and stelae (vertical inscribed stone slabs) from four generations of Assyrian kings.
    The mighty Assyrian empire began as the small city-state of Ashur in what is now the north-eastern region of Iraq. It first asserted control over a large area in the 14th century BC, but by the 12th century BC it had collapsed.
    The British Museum, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire.
    #BritishMuseum #museum #VicStefanu

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  • @opponenspericulo
    @opponenspericulo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now an iraqi artist want one sent to Iraq because those left there were destroyed by Daesh (ISIS). What if all had been left in the Middle East during the last 100 years, as so many wanted? It would be nothing to watch and study anymore.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very interesting point, thank you!

    • @opponenspericulo
      @opponenspericulo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@VicStefanuThank you.
      I've visited and marvelled at BM's collections many times, and feel that if it were not for BM, the Pergamon museum in Berlin and others like those in Europe, there might not have been much left to piece together our history. For all the slack & critique made against 'former colonial rulers' shipping artefacts back to their cities, looking at the intense, undiscriminating warmongering in the origin countries since, most would likely have been gone.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@opponenspericulo Very interesting, thank you for these comments!! 😊😊😊

  • @alextom7367
    @alextom7367 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wow man I love the Assyrians and Chaldea's

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello and thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!

    • @studyofantiquityandthemidd4449
      @studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu Hey! Tried sending you an email but it said that the email was no longer active? Would love to discuss a project with you.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 Hi, that email address has been discontinued due to getting thousands of spam messages per day.. Please send me your email address and I will send you an email..

    • @studyofantiquityandthemidd4449
      @studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu and thank you for responding dear sir!

    • @studyofantiquityandthemidd4449
      @studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu hello good sir, just saw your comment here and remembered, did you send me that email by chance?

  • @blancamiranda6661
    @blancamiranda6661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Came back one more time... magnificent!!!

  • @alextom7367
    @alextom7367 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    God bless Assyria

  • @user-yo8rq4lx5w
    @user-yo8rq4lx5w 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    حضارة العراق حضارة عريقة وعظيمة لا مثيل لها

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      صحيح جداً، أتمنى أن أزور العراق يوماً ما، شكراً لتعليقاتكم

    • @PAnGLiMaBAniJaWi99
      @PAnGLiMaBAniJaWi99 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeahh...right....as a muslim, many history about of many prophet's is came from country today's we know it as a IRAQ ...

  • @wplains
    @wplains ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They may have been “looted” but if they’d been left in the original places they probably wouldn’t exist anymore. Remember the Buddhas that were blown up?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And this is the excuse, as you mentioned it here, that allows the British Museum to keep all looted treasures around the world..

  • @Abdullah_313_99
    @Abdullah_313_99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Keep them safe 😔
    Pray for Iraq 🇮🇶

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

    • @ayushchaturvedi1055
      @ayushchaturvedi1055 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pray for Iraq from India💖🇮🇳🔱🕉️

  • @LL-sq8se
    @LL-sq8se 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks..Vic what a lovely evening I've had watching this documentary a great treasure!!🤔

  • @LL-sq8se
    @LL-sq8se 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Incredible!! So interesting!! Thanks Vic!👍🕊️🧚🧞🧜🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!!

  • @alextom7367
    @alextom7367 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Assyrian's man of war

  • @user-qq7bp1zm9g
    @user-qq7bp1zm9g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    God bless mesopotamia iraq 🇮🇶

  • @bobgriffin316
    @bobgriffin316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I do free tours of the Assyrian Collection at the British Museum on most Wednesday afternoons at about 2pm or 3pm. I start at the Black Obelisk at the bottom of the Egyptian Gallery. I might move it to Saturdays when Covid finishes.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok, thank you! 👍👍👍

  • @wingedbull1257
    @wingedbull1257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @boldrich7225
    @boldrich7225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the Video, I hope to visit soon.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @alexanderthegreat5352
    @alexanderthegreat5352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    As an Arab I'm actually glad they've been stolen, with all the political unrest here in the middle east, I'm glad to know they're safe and being studied and maintained

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@samlaw1501 Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

    • @PortmanRd
      @PortmanRd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You took the words right out of my mouth. I was thinking of all the ancient buildings blown up or defaced by Isis

    • @debhurd8898
      @debhurd8898 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with you. They are safe at the British Museum.

  • @sav7568
    @sav7568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm hoping that before I die I can learn what the pine cones really were. I think that they were something else that had a pine cone shape. Then there's the handbags . . . . . . . . . .

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @crazysnowlalala
      @crazysnowlalala 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I m soo curious about those 2 items as well. Almost burns a hole inside hahah

  • @user-zs3lh2wn4g
    @user-zs3lh2wn4g 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Assyrian civilization is one of the civilizations mesopotamia Ancient iraq 👍

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @meeeka
    @meeeka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Well, at least these are safe from Da’esh.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for your comments!!

    • @saqibkhan2908
      @saqibkhan2908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So you and those that stole the artifacts actually knew back then that Daesh would come in the future and they would destroy the articles and the artifacts so they felt morally obligated To steal them ??? Are you sure that was the thought ?? Silly me I couldn’t see the logic behind the looting

    • @noisemarine1432
      @noisemarine1432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@saqibkhan2908 no we did not but you saw what happend at mosul

    • @josedacosta9847
      @josedacosta9847 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@saqibkhan2908 ya for sure I am a time traveller and went back and told those guys to bring those objects to safety!!!!!

    • @richardque4952
      @richardque4952 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Has the artifact in iraq.these priceless artifact could have been destroy by isis.

  • @kevinclayton1656
    @kevinclayton1656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There looted fine.but if they wasn't they'd be destroyed or sold to private collectors.so yes we looted alot in the British empire.but they are safe and beautifully displayed

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @marcus2rell187
    @marcus2rell187 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:52 is that a phallus on his head?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do not think so....

    • @JustSpectre
      @JustSpectre 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, it's so called horned helmet. It appears with two horns meaning lesser deity or with seven horns indicating higher one.

  • @user-ss6kb8ls4e
    @user-ss6kb8ls4e ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All these beautiful artifacts were stolen from Iraq by the British. Many civilizations arose in the countries of the Mesopotamia Valley in its north, middle and south, and the era of those civilizations dates back to thousands of years before Christ, peace be upon him. At that time, Europe was living in the darkness of ignorance, misery and primitiveness ، F J .

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for sharing with us these interesting comments!! 😊😊😊

    • @wplains
      @wplains ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Difference is, Europe didn’t continue to live in “darkness and ignorance”. Europeans gave you democracy, the rule of law, electricity, planes, trains, cars, the internal combustion engine, radio, TV, helicopters, movies, the internet, telephones, rockets, satellites, the GPS system, modern medicine, antibiotics, x-rays machines, medical scanners….the list is endless. In fact, everything that makes your life comfortable and easy. 😄

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wplains Hello, thank you for these interesting comments! 😊😊😊

    • @narjessbenhamouda7071
      @narjessbenhamouda7071 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@wplains Democracy let me laugh, or cry, the English, you destroyed Iraq and you continue to destroy the entire region... And for the great Buddhas it is your Taliban militias who destroyed them... it's a nod to the Chinese, and in any case they couldn't be moved... Archaeologists have anecdotes on this, did you know the famous one? "Could the pyramids of Egypt were not stolen" and the other replied... They were too heavy!!!

  • @trolltalwar
    @trolltalwar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    its a good thing that the british "looted" these artifacts and brought them to england to be preserved, otherwise isis terrorists would have destroyed them!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's one way of looking at the whole concept of priceless items being looted to another country for displaying in a museum..

  • @thugwafflebro8062
    @thugwafflebro8062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Biblical text coming alive before our eyes

    • @thugwafflebro8062
      @thugwafflebro8062 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Always alive sorry

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @michaelhasfel7
    @michaelhasfel7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Looted? I think you misspelled the word "bought".

    • @boldrich7225
      @boldrich7225 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are correct, the treasures were taken and brought to England.

    • @AMR_k400
      @AMR_k400 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Looted is the correct word the brits never bought anything how dumb do u think people are , are u saying the syrain or iraqi government sold these artifacts thats bullcrap

    • @trolltalwar
      @trolltalwar ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AMR_k400 good thing the british brought them to england to be preserved in a museum, otherwise isis would of destroyed them just like they destroyed the city of nimrud and other ancient historical sites

  • @MrBrownnn696
    @MrBrownnn696 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's the creation story an how to worship their gods.... including sacrifice.... I could be wrong

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Derrick and thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @earlrussell1026
    @earlrussell1026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus the anointed is Lord! Repent and be baptized and believe the Gospel.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @truthhitman7473
    @truthhitman7473 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sons of Ham

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @Shadowfan1337
      @Shadowfan1337 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Truth Hitman Sons of Shem and son of Shem Ashur*

    • @truthhitman7473
      @truthhitman7473 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shadowfan1337 Nope ! Nimrod, the grandson of Ham is the one, according to the Bible, who founded those ancient civilizations. And Noah, who is the father of Ham , Shem, and Japheth, was a black man. Remember that DNA confirms that the first humans were black. In fact, black people are the origins of all human features. But white supremacy has brainwashed everyone to BELIEVE that only white people have straight noses and black people have broad noses. NO. Black people have all kinds of features and hair types.
      GENESIS 10:6
      6 And the sons of Ham; CUSH, and MIZRAIM, and Phut, and CANAAN.
      7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
      8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
      9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
      10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and ACCAD, and Calneh, in the land of SHINAR.
      11 Out of that land went forth ASSHUR, and builded NINEVEH, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
      12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
      13 And MIZRAIM begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
      14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

    • @Shadowfan1337
      @Shadowfan1337 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Truth Hitman Listen I couldn't careless if the first humans were blacks or not, yes I am an Assyrian orthodox believer, and I do agree if I still lived in the middle east I would have a dark skin just like the rest of my people have. I am today born in Sweden with a white skin (not Europian white) . Listen Nimrod is also known as Sargon of Akkad they both have the same accounts and match perfect together, the name Nimrod means on old aramaic Rebelious, and sargon of akkad was a man who rebbeled in order to claim the throne and even being credited for building nineveh and other cities just like the biblical nimrod.
      Listen these names of the bible are just trying to tell us that fathers of these characters are the folkgroups, they said that Nimrod was Kushite because he came from the state named Kush, and they were not black they were dark skined white people also known as Akkadians. Akkadians , Assyrians and Babylonians are the same thing.

    • @truthhitman7473
      @truthhitman7473 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shadowfan1337 Nimrod was a black man, the grandson of Ham. And there is no such thing as a dark skinned white person lol No. What it is IS that white people like you are too racist to admit the truth even in the face of evidence. Your point of view has now gone into insanity. According to the Bible Noah and his family were the only people on the Planet after the flood. And Noah had to have been black in order to pass on the skin pigmentation called melanin to his 3 sons Ham, Shem, and Japheth for them to have been black. And when I say black I'm talking in political terms because no human is black. They range from dark brown, who are referred to as black people, to Pale skin, who are referred to as white people. And since you are a pale skinned European it means you are a Gentile.
      GENESIS 10:2 - 5
      2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
      3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
      4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
      5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

  • @paullangford8179
    @paullangford8179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    At least, not destroyed by ISIS!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @guitaoist
    @guitaoist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we have absolutely no clue what these artifacts really mean, no scholar will admit what they are trying to tell us

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your comments!!

    • @sav7568
      @sav7568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are showing us what the Annunaki looked like. You have to bear in mind that ancient sculptors were metaphoric in their works. eg if you see a figure with wings that doesn't mean that the subject really had wings but rather that the subject could fly. If you see a king with a bull's body it means that the king, or perhaps the god, was thought by the sculptor to be very powerful.

    • @silyima
      @silyima 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sav7568 The winged bull is a depiction of one the kings dreams called Lamasu

  • @earlysda
    @earlysda ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn't see anything "looted" here. Perhaps the video creator was thinking of a different video when titling this one.

    • @user-qu6rk7xq6l
      @user-qu6rk7xq6l ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Looted Iraqi civilization

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@user-qu6rk7xq6l Exactly!

    • @earlysda
      @earlysda ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu Nothing at all looted in this video.
      How can someone be so unaware of the real world? Don't you realize that if these objects were left in their native countries, they would all be destroyed or sold in pieces to private collectors by now?

  • @zrgeuze4402
    @zrgeuze4402 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’am iraqi before the war in 2003 this was in the iraqi museum in Bagdad this is stolend from iraq They have to bring it back

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello and thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @rhondaclark716
    @rhondaclark716 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ASSYRIAN SPNISH ,,MEXICANS INDIANS ARABS AND MUSLIMS. Deuteronomy 20;17. Interesting culture

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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