Excellent work my child! Well done, son! By the way, what dynasties came to power in Iran after mine? I didn’t live long enough to see that. Could you please tell me more about it? And how did my empire end up being like what it is now? This is not the Iran that I founded? What happened to my empire?
They all basically operated like street-gangs. Preying on weaker neighbors, enriching their leaders and sort of protecting the people in their locale, providing they did what they were told and paid their 'taxes'. I'm not sure what's so interesting about that. Personally I find the utter antiquity of it all fascinating. There are records of battles, kings, priests, copies of sulky diplomatic messages between national leaders, dating from the time when my ancestors were at the limit of their capabilities building stonehenge.
It's actually a pretty nice idea to explain various artworks of ancient cultures. Be it for their beauty or for their relevance. Please do more like this.
I vividly recall that time in HS Asian History class when I had some of these masterpieces from borrowed books in the library on acetate so that I show them via projector while reporting about Akkad and Sumer. Anyway, as always, thanks for this enjoyable excellent and edifying presentation, Cy. You're the best history teacher I never had! In no time for sure you'll reach 100K subs. Kudos and advance felicitations!
Comments like this make my day and motivate me to put out more, thank you! Yeah, we'll get to 100k sometime soon, but seriously, I'm just thrilled that there are so many of you out there who enjoy this stuff... motivates me to put out more for you all. Thanks so much for the support and more on the way, stay tuned!
I must say that I appreciate your work enormously. Every video is like going back in time. This one brought back some good memories for me. In the last years of high school I followed quite some history classes. One of them was called “Cultural History”. I had this specific class 8 hours every week. This was a real treat for me. I just love history and especially the history of the golden crescent. It was the teacher of this class that introduced me to ancient Mesopotamia. I still remember the beautiful pictures she showed of the Standard of Ur. Upon seeing it I was totally smitten. The craftsmanship is unbelievable. She explained us what materials they used to make it and what it could possibly mean. My teacher was a wonderful woman. She was so driven and she told history in such a way that it became real. Much later when I got the opportunity I went to the UK to see the Standard and all the beautiful Mesopotamian artefacts for myself. This is now a long time ago (late eighties) and my teacher sadly passed away. Still it is people like her that are driven to teach and to share that make us want to learn and explore. So thank you for also being such a person. Learning from the past can make a better future.
Ah a fresh Cy vid, a hot cuppa and an easy Tuesday. Life is good. Btw Cy, have you considered doing a video on that Minoan Linear A deciphering breakthrough published a few months ago?
Thanks, appreciate the kind words! Yeah, actually that topic has come up. There's someone who wrote to me a few weeks ago about deciphering languages using AI, not just Linear A but also other ancient languages like Sumerian and Elamite. Still looking into it but might do a program on that later on in the year. Thanks for the suggestion, really appreciate it... stay tuned!
@@HistorywithCy No problem, although I dont think it would be possible to crack Linear A with a computer program, hear me out. Minoan itself is a language that has been dead far longer than Egyptian was and we dont have any Rosetta Stone per se nor any living relative languages. Without either of those two its extremely difficult to decipher the syntax of Minoan, but that's impossible without any understanding of the pictographic grammar. The breakthrough as I understand it involved alot of investigative comparison and detective work on the part of the archaeologists. Like for example they used a scroll seal in linear a found in site 22z on Knossos and compared it to another from found in a scribes area from another site on the mainland Linear B territory with the same glyphs and figured out the glyphs were denoting the same place name in linear A as Pai-i-to (Phaistos)
@@SilenTHerO78614 You never know. It was believed at one time that the Mayan glyphs and the knowledge of what they meant were lost after the conquistadors destroyed many Mayan and Aztec codexes but the understand of the meaning of the Mayan script was restored and now there’s a movement to teach the Mayan people their ancestral script. In fact there’s a 90+% accuracy in deciphering the Mayan texts. So we could eventually crack Linear A.
Yeah it was fun to do... I'm starting to really like doing these slower-paced, chill videos more and more. The next "art and explanation" episode should be out next month.... maybe I'll make it a monthly thing. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it! Stay tuned for more!
Cy, I really appreciate your work. I have had an interest in ancient civilizations and empires ever since I first played Age of Empires. Learning about these people, who lived thousands of years ago, gives me a comforting sense of sonder. Had it not been for channels like yours, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossibe, to gain such amazing knowledge as you provide. So really, thank you, and keep up the amazing work!
Ancient art is so fascinating and tells so much about that civilization's society and culture! You should consider doing more of these videos analyzing ancient art, this one was fantastic!
Following your series, I am writing about human history through time, starting at the very beginning - Mesopotamia. I find it so intriguing and I have been fixated ever since I found your series. I was able to get the great pleasure today of seeing The Standard of Ur in the flesh, along with countless collections of cuneiform scripts and cylindrical seals. I was not only surprised by the intracy of the artwork in Ancient Mesopotamia but I was blown away by how small Sumerian script actually was. It's much smaller than the text I see written today and I just wonder how they deciphered it all. Not only is it a completely different ancient language but it is incredibly difficult to even make out what it says through all the cracks and chips and small size of the tablets.
You're in luck! Most of this channel has so far been devoted to both of those civs and there's lots more on the way. Thanks for stopping by and watching... and stay tuned!
Thanks, appreciate the kind words and feedback! Yeah, I'm trying to learn how to make better use of the camera I have. Still learning but having fun doing it. Will have another video similar to this one out next month, stay tuned!
I’m sure you didn’t decide to make this just bc of my comment I made about artifacts a while back 😉, but still, that’s really awesome of you to go out of your way to do this and really and enjoyed it, thanks!! Great idea adding in a video dedicated to just artifacts of a particular civilization you’ve covered.
Haha honestly, I don't know, I may have gotten the idea from you. Regardless, it was a fun video to make and I'll definitely make more of them. The next one will feature the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin and other art that I've not quite yet decided upon. If you have any suggestions or pieces that you'd like for me to go over, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks again for suggestions and support, really appreciate it!
Wow such a great video I liked this very much your TH-cam channel is the best channel on you tube. Your channel is the inspiration for other history lovers. I get much more knowledge than any book from your channel. Your all videos are full of Knowledge and wisdom. According to my account your channel is the best history channel of TH-cam. You definitely become number 1 channel on TH-cam in future. Your analysis is so good. So bro can you make a video on Skanderbeg please please
Thanks! Yeah, I have similar one coming next month. I liked doing this because it allowed me to touch up a little bit on different eras and places in one relatively short video. If you have any specific artifacts that you'd like me to put in a program, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks again, stay safe!
Thanks my friend, and yes, I think you're right... there are sooo many artifacts that one can examine, both objects and texts. I can look into the Nimrud treasure for sure! Thanks for the suggestion and lots more art and explanations on the way, stay tuned!
Wow, thanks! I need to put out more podcasts... I actually prefer doing those because they're more informal and I can put them out much quicker. Hope that you had a great trip and thanks again!
Good question, not that I know of though when they found it, they did some analysis to try to determine what type of wood may have been used (the original wood had already disintegrated when it was discovered). If I find out more about it I'll be sure to post it here. Thanks for stopping by and the question, really appreciate them!
Hey Cy, I love your work. I was wondering if you could report on what information is available on the land of Gilead. Your videos are the only place I’ve been able to find any historical information on the subject. All other searches seem deal primarily with the “handmaidens tale” show and an obscure research lab.
Hi, thanks for stopping by and the suggestion! Sure, I can look into it. I had briefly covered Gilead in the fourth video on the Canaan series, but there were not many artifacts that I came across ... it was more just about its mention in various texts. If I find more I'll do my best to post it. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
I hope this series can cover art from West Africa and Southeast Asia as well. The cultures of those regions and the art they created at seriously underrated. Examples: Busts of Ife (Nigeria) Plaques of Benin (Nigeria) Naga statues of the Khmer (Cambodia)
This is a great idea, I'll look into it. I started with Mesopotamia because that's more my area of expertise, but I've been reading about west Africa lately and would love to branch out into that area. Thanks for the suggestion, appreciate it!
New videos from Cy, History Time and fall of Civilizations, it a good week :) still catching up on Stephan Milo and Histocrat. Any recommendations on other channels peeps?
Excellent, will we ever know why several thousand ppl were sacrificed in ur, since no other large scale sacrifice has been found? Mysterious, to say the least!
Hi, thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! The most common hypothesis/theory is that they all believed that they'd enter into some afterlife where they'd also serve their king like they did on earth...reminds me a bit of that Heaven's Gate cult where they also took some kind of poison believing that they were going heaven. What I wonder about those who were sacrificed at Ur is how many of them actually willingly went through this process and how many were forced to do it. I guess we'll never know...
Cy! Have you heard of Barakat Gallery? They have Real Attracts From all across the world. That date to different periods on history from the early 1900's all the way back to 4000 BC with Sumerian Artifacts. Of course they are all extremely expensive but it's cool that you could buy this stuff. I want an Olmec jade wear-Jaguar dated to roughly 700 bc but it costs like $300,000. Though as we all know... IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM! I still want it. One day.
Hi! Yes, heard of it and seen some of the images online, especially when I was once searching for Elamite artifacts. Lol yeah I would definitely need a lot more money to purchase one of those artifacts... a lot! Yeah, I also would prefer if a museum kept it. Sometimes though there are institutions that buy such objects from private markets and then donate them to museums or universities. I'd probably want to do the same. As you said, one day...
It is also worth noting that the head of Sennacherib (and only his head) is also brutally vandalised on the Lachish victory relief (shown in this video). So maybe the invading Medes and Babylonians mistook the mask of Sargon for the depiction of an Assyrian king.
Another amazing video Cy! One thing that surprises me is the dating of the Royal Standard of Ur to 2550 BC. The image on it depicts chariots, which are presumably being drawn by some kind of donkey/onager/ass, as the Sumerians didn’t have the horse yet. However, the earliest archaeological evidence for the chariot is 2400 BC, found in the Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture of central asia. Does this mean that the chariot was invented by the Sumerians as opposed to the Indo-Iranians? Thanks again! Always a pleasure watching all of your videos!
Honestly, I have no clue. It could be a case of a technology lost only to be reinvented a good distance away from the origin point. For example the Antikythera mechanism is the earliest form of a computer we know of with the knowledge of it being lost after the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire only to resurface, first with Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage and then in the form of the ENIAC, the first modern, electricity driven version of a computer. Incidentally my dad’s parents, my grandpa and biological grandma (I never met her since she died before I was born), actually worked on the ENIAC. I wish my grandpa was still alive. He was a bit more knowledgeable about the history of computers than I am. Also he would have loved this channel, he was such a history and art lover.
Belief in modern religions, especially the Judep-Christian trio that was birthed in these regions, always baffles me; particularly Young Earth creationists who believe the Earth was made some 6000yrs ago, when we have vast evidence for existence and religions far predating them. As well as "Biblical" stories that were clearly remakes of earlier stories i.e Noah > Atrahasis > Ziusudra > Utnapishtim!! When the lockdown began in Dec of 2019, I decided I'd start to learn Sumerian cuneiform. Though still new to it, it's easy to see that it is a most elegant and simple (in it's own ways) language; difficult to learn by yourself and kidnapping the [Irving] Finkel would be frowned upon; such an interesting, knowledgeable guy!
Hi! Yes, actually I thought of that but at the moment, I'm not sure what specifically they destroyed. I know there were things at the Mosul museum that they smashed but I don't have any info on the specifics. But yes, I think that's a good idea to do one day, thanks for the suggestion!
@@HistorywithCy oups i meant to say "you look pretty MUCH like i thought you would" as in you like like i imagined😅 but yeah, i enjoy the content. 'll be tuning in
Hi David, thanks for the question! To be honest, I'm not sure of the specific meaning (if any). I've seen that motif of the animal (in this case what looks like a deer) and a human together. Some say that's it's to represent man's harmony with nature or it could also mean man's domination of nature, but in this case I really don't know. If I find something more, I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks again for the question, appreciate it!
😂 you're right, I don't know why I didn't think of that, especially since at one time I used to be a geometry teacher! 😂😂 I clearly like history a lot more. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it, stay tuned for more art and geometric figures (have some triangles, pentagons and octagons coming up in future programs) lol!
That's a very good point - Naram-Sin later on during his reign did claim to be a god. Some art historians believe that it may be Naram-Sin simply because the style is closer to that of other objects that have been found from closer to his reign (though none as detailed as this head/mask itself). Come to think of it, it could have been of a local governor or noble since we don't know where it originally was crafted. Perhaps by Assyrian times, the object's origin had become the stuff of legend, much like, for example, the shroud of Turin. I guess though we'll never truly know just who the head is suppose to resemble. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy That is a very good point. The head could’ve been crafted somewhere else and was carried to the location it was found in, either by trade or as a spoil of war.
The wagons are being drawn by Kunga. Then described as stronger than a donkey and faster than a horse. Bred in the countryside they are were a hybrid of a wild horse and donkey now extinct.Too bad,sounds better than a car😉
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I get the impression that it's something like an educated guess... It's from a period that's close enough in time, Sargon is the famous guy, so... By the way, I am under the impression that the mask of Agamemnon is also most probably not Agamemnon's, but was just so named because of the excitement of the time... Another great video Cy, love the channel!
@@markospoulios8128 Yeah it's the same with the golden death mask from Mycenae... Schliemann just called it that because Agamemnon was famous as being the king of Mycenae from the Iliad, but we don't really know who the mask belonged to. Kind of also like "Priam's Treasure" at Troy. There's no evidence that it belonged to king Priam of Troy but they called it that and the name stuck. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it... more on the way, stay tuned!
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Dude, U look gorgeous! I would love to cpunt your teeth with my tongue one day!
Excellent work my child! Well done, son!
By the way, what dynasties came to power in Iran after mine? I didn’t live long enough to see that. Could you please tell me more about it? And how did my empire end up being like what it is now? This is not the Iran that I founded? What happened to my empire?
@@cyrusthegreat1893 It is an honor to meet the father of empires.
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@@HVLLOW99 Thank you, son.
I love ancient civilizations because it is so interesting to learn of how they operate. And also the various cultures.
I know exactly how you feel! More on the way, thanks so much for stopping by and stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks! You be safe too.
They all basically operated like street-gangs. Preying on weaker neighbors, enriching their leaders and sort of protecting the people in their locale, providing they did what they were told and paid their 'taxes'. I'm not sure what's so interesting about that.
Personally I find the utter antiquity of it all fascinating. There are records of battles, kings, priests, copies of sulky diplomatic messages between national leaders, dating from the time when my ancestors were at the limit of their capabilities building stonehenge.
It's actually a pretty nice idea to explain various artworks of ancient cultures. Be it for their beauty or for their relevance.
Please do more like this.
For sure, have another episode like this one planned already, stay tuned and thanks!
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I vividly recall that time in HS Asian History class when I had some of these masterpieces from borrowed books in the library on acetate so that I show them via projector while reporting about Akkad and Sumer. Anyway, as always, thanks for this enjoyable excellent and edifying presentation, Cy. You're the best history teacher I never had! In no time for sure you'll reach 100K subs. Kudos and advance felicitations!
Comments like this make my day and motivate me to put out more, thank you! Yeah, we'll get to 100k sometime soon, but seriously, I'm just thrilled that there are so many of you out there who enjoy this stuff... motivates me to put out more for you all. Thanks so much for the support and more on the way, stay tuned!
I must say that I appreciate your work enormously. Every video is like going back in time. This one brought back some good memories for me. In the last years of high school I followed quite some history classes. One of them was called “Cultural History”. I had this specific class 8 hours every week. This was a real treat for me. I just love history and especially the history of the golden crescent. It was the teacher of this class that introduced me to ancient Mesopotamia. I still remember the beautiful pictures she showed of the Standard of Ur. Upon seeing it I was totally smitten. The craftsmanship is unbelievable. She explained us what materials they used to make it and what it could possibly mean. My teacher was a wonderful woman. She was so driven and she told history in such a way that it became real. Much later when I got the opportunity I went to the UK to see the Standard and all the beautiful Mesopotamian artefacts for myself. This is now a long time ago (late eighties) and my teacher sadly passed away. Still it is people like her that are driven to teach and to share that make us want to learn and explore. So thank you for also being such a person. Learning from the past can make a better future.
Ah a fresh Cy vid, a hot cuppa and an easy Tuesday. Life is good.
Btw Cy, have you considered doing a video on that Minoan Linear A deciphering breakthrough published a few months ago?
Thanks, appreciate the kind words! Yeah, actually that topic has come up. There's someone who wrote to me a few weeks ago about deciphering languages using AI, not just Linear A but also other ancient languages like Sumerian and Elamite. Still looking into it but might do a program on that later on in the year. Thanks for the suggestion, really appreciate it... stay tuned!
@@HistorywithCy No problem, although I dont think it would be possible to crack Linear A with a computer program, hear me out. Minoan itself is a language that has been dead far longer than Egyptian was and we dont have any Rosetta Stone per se nor any living relative languages. Without either of those two its extremely difficult to decipher the syntax of Minoan, but that's impossible without any understanding of the pictographic grammar. The breakthrough as I understand it involved alot of investigative comparison and detective work on the part of the archaeologists. Like for example they used a scroll seal in linear a found in site 22z on Knossos and compared it to another from found in a scribes area from another site on the mainland Linear B territory with the same glyphs and figured out the glyphs were denoting the same place name in linear A as Pai-i-to (Phaistos)
@@SilenTHerO78614 You never know. It was believed at one time that the Mayan glyphs and the knowledge of what they meant were lost after the conquistadors destroyed many Mayan and Aztec codexes but the understand of the meaning of the Mayan script was restored and now there’s a movement to teach the Mayan people their ancestral script. In fact there’s a 90+% accuracy in deciphering the Mayan texts. So we could eventually crack Linear A.
I liked this episode. A different pace and feel because of the different subject matter. I hope you make more about the art.
+1
Yeah it was fun to do... I'm starting to really like doing these slower-paced, chill videos more and more. The next "art and explanation" episode should be out next month.... maybe I'll make it a monthly thing. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it! Stay tuned for more!
Cy, I really appreciate your work. I have had an interest in ancient civilizations and empires ever since I first played Age of Empires. Learning about these people, who lived thousands of years ago, gives me a comforting sense of sonder. Had it not been for channels like yours, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossibe, to gain such amazing knowledge as you provide. So really, thank you, and keep up the amazing work!
Ancient art is so fascinating and tells so much about that civilization's society and culture! You should consider doing more of these videos analyzing ancient art, this one was fantastic!
For sure, have another one coming out next month, stay tuned! Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! More on the way, stay tuned!
Yay - I’ve been watching and rewatching all of your videos. Thank you for your work, I love your channel 😊🙏💕
Thanks my friend, really appreciate the support and so glad you're into this stuff! I'll try to put out more this summer, stay tuned!
Following your series, I am writing about human history through time, starting at the very beginning - Mesopotamia. I find it so intriguing and I have been fixated ever since I found your series. I was able to get the great pleasure today of seeing The Standard of Ur in the flesh, along with countless collections of cuneiform scripts and cylindrical seals. I was not only surprised by the intracy of the artwork in Ancient Mesopotamia but I was blown away by how small Sumerian script actually was. It's much smaller than the text I see written today and I just wonder how they deciphered it all. Not only is it a completely different ancient language but it is incredibly difficult to even make out what it says through all the cracks and chips and small size of the tablets.
I have been obsessed with Sumer and ancient Mesopotamia they're starting to rival my obsession with ancient Egypt
You're in luck! Most of this channel has so far been devoted to both of those civs and there's lots more on the way. Thanks for stopping by and watching... and stay tuned!
Man, your production value just keeps getting better and better. Keep it up, Cy!
Thanks, appreciate the kind words and feedback! Yeah, I'm trying to learn how to make better use of the camera I have. Still learning but having fun doing it. Will have another video similar to this one out next month, stay tuned!
Nice video as usual
Thanks
No, thank you for watching, really appreciate it!
I’m sure you didn’t decide to make this just bc of my comment I made about artifacts a while back 😉, but still, that’s really awesome of you to go out of your way to do this and really and enjoyed it, thanks!! Great idea adding in a video dedicated to just artifacts of a particular civilization you’ve covered.
Haha honestly, I don't know, I may have gotten the idea from you. Regardless, it was a fun video to make and I'll definitely make more of them. The next one will feature the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin and other art that I've not quite yet decided upon. If you have any suggestions or pieces that you'd like for me to go over, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks again for suggestions and support, really appreciate it!
Good to see not only some cool ancient artifacts but also the channel creator himself ! Cool video ! ))
Thanks my friend, we'll do more of these story behind the artifact videos next month too, stay tuned!
underrated channel
Thank you, appreciate the kind words!
Make a video about Ugarit, its history, architecture and daily life of its people (farmers, priests, kings, etc)
Oh yes, definitely plan to one day. It's on my list, just haven't gotten around to it but will hopefully in the next few months, stay tuned!
Thanks for another amazing post!
No problem, thank you for watching!
Wow such a great video I liked this very much your TH-cam channel is the best channel on you tube. Your channel is the inspiration for other history lovers. I get much more knowledge than any book from your channel. Your all videos are full of Knowledge and wisdom. According to my account your channel is the best history channel of TH-cam. You definitely become number 1 channel on TH-cam in future. Your analysis is so good. So bro can you make a video on Skanderbeg please please
Thank you! Will look into it... see my previous reply to your comment... thanks!
My favorite part about Sumerian art is the dorky smiles they gave everyone
😁!
Great stuff, Cy!😁🙏
I love Ancient History and want to thank you for educating me to a chapter of history of which I am/was woefully ignorant.
Really great video! Lots of cool stuff in here. I think this art history angle is one you could take really far if you wanted to!
Thanks! Yeah, I have similar one coming next month. I liked doing this because it allowed me to touch up a little bit on different eras and places in one relatively short video. If you have any specific artifacts that you'd like me to put in a program, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks again, stay safe!
Great work as always!
Thank you, appreciate the kind words! More on the way, stay tuned!
Great video Cy! I wasnt aware that the mask might not belong to Sargon the Great =O
Can't wait to be able to go back to museums!
I can't thank you enough for the great work you do!
Thank you, appreciate it! More on the way, stay tuned!
Good to see the face behind the voice! And I'm always impressed with your erudition.
Great idea for a video cy, i bet you can run another channel just to cover Mesopotamian artefacts, how about one for Nimrud treasure
Thanks my friend, and yes, I think you're right... there are sooo many artifacts that one can examine, both objects and texts. I can look into the Nimrud treasure for sure! Thanks for the suggestion and lots more art and explanations on the way, stay tuned!
cy i just finished a 5 hour trip and i was binge watching your podcast on Spotify
Wow, thanks! I need to put out more podcasts... I actually prefer doing those because they're more informal and I can put them out much quicker. Hope that you had a great trip and thanks again!
I loved this. Excellent Idea to tell the stories of the artworks. It brings them to life in an amazing way.
Thanks, glad you liked it! More on the way, stay tuned!
Thanks Cy...
No, thank you for watching, appreciate it!
Finally you made new video👍
Yup! Hope to make them faster in future! Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy no problem
Question: Did they try to scan/photograph the Standard in other ways? Like X-Ray or other methods? Maybe more data can be squeezed out of it
Good question, not that I know of though when they found it, they did some analysis to try to determine what type of wood may have been used (the original wood had already disintegrated when it was discovered). If I find out more about it I'll be sure to post it here. Thanks for stopping by and the question, really appreciate them!
Thank u for sharing ur knowledge. I expect more in future. God bless u . From Ethiopia.
Thank you and glad you enjoyed this! I hope to go to Ethiopia one day to study more on the kingdom of Axum. Thanks for watching!
Dude, I really appreciate your work.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Great idea for a series
Thanks! More art and explanations on the way, stay tuned!
Hey Cy, I love your work. I was wondering if you could report on what information is available on the land of Gilead. Your videos are the only place I’ve been able to find any historical information on the subject. All other searches seem deal primarily with the “handmaidens tale” show and an obscure research lab.
Hi, thanks for stopping by and the suggestion! Sure, I can look into it. I had briefly covered Gilead in the fourth video on the Canaan series, but there were not many artifacts that I came across ... it was more just about its mention in various texts. If I find more I'll do my best to post it. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
👍👍👍Truly masterpiece's, brought to us by Cy, thanks!!
Thanks my friend, always great to see you here! More on the way, stay tuned!
I hope this series can cover art from West Africa and Southeast Asia as well.
The cultures of those regions and the art they created at seriously underrated.
Examples:
Busts of Ife (Nigeria)
Plaques of Benin (Nigeria)
Naga statues of the Khmer (Cambodia)
This is a great idea, I'll look into it. I started with Mesopotamia because that's more my area of expertise, but I've been reading about west Africa lately and would love to branch out into that area. Thanks for the suggestion, appreciate it!
Happy to help
Great,more on the art please...thanks...
Thanks for the explanations! I really got a lot out of it, b/c I find it really hard to SEE without a guide.
Thanks, glad you like this, will put out similar ones soon!
Thank you for the effort!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
You are good
3:35 Is that a wind-up horse? :D
Excellent video!
Thank you! More on the way, stay tuned!
Excellent work as usual!
By the way, could you also please make a video about the ancient Yemen? Thanks!
Thanks, appreciate the kind words! It's on my list for topics to look into, thanks for the suggestion! Stay safe!
New videos from Cy, History Time and fall of Civilizations, it a good week :) still catching up on Stephan Milo and Histocrat. Any recommendations on other channels peeps?
Excellent, will we ever know why several thousand ppl were sacrificed in ur, since no other large scale sacrifice has been found? Mysterious, to say the least!
Hi, thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! The most common hypothesis/theory is that they all believed that they'd enter into some afterlife where they'd also serve their king like they did on earth...reminds me a bit of that Heaven's Gate cult where they also took some kind of poison believing that they were going heaven. What I wonder about those who were sacrificed at Ur is how many of them actually willingly went through this process and how many were forced to do it. I guess we'll never know...
Was hoping to hear something about Chaldean and the Chaldeans.
Awesome video Cy -- I enjoyed the deeper dive into the standard!
Thanks man, appreciate it! I'll do more more of these art/historical context vids soon, stay tuned!
Love to see you talking on camera
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Have you heard of Barakat Gallery?
They have Real Attracts From all across the world. That date to different periods on history from the early 1900's all the way back to 4000 BC with Sumerian Artifacts. Of course they are all extremely expensive but it's cool that you could buy this stuff. I want an Olmec jade wear-Jaguar dated to roughly 700 bc but it costs like $300,000. Though as we all know... IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM! I still want it. One day.
Hi! Yes, heard of it and seen some of the images online, especially when I was once searching for Elamite artifacts. Lol yeah I would definitely need a lot more money to purchase one of those artifacts... a lot! Yeah, I also would prefer if a museum kept it. Sometimes though there are institutions that buy such objects from private markets and then donate them to museums or universities. I'd probably want to do the same. As you said, one day...
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It is also worth noting that the head of Sennacherib (and only his head) is also brutally vandalised on the Lachish victory relief (shown in this video). So maybe the invading Medes and Babylonians mistook the mask of Sargon for the depiction of an Assyrian king.
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Thank you!
Another amazing video Cy! One thing that surprises me is the dating of the Royal Standard of Ur to 2550 BC. The image on it depicts chariots, which are presumably being drawn by some kind of donkey/onager/ass, as the Sumerians didn’t have the horse yet. However, the earliest archaeological evidence for the chariot is 2400 BC, found in the Indo-Iranian Sintashta culture of central asia. Does this mean that the chariot was invented by the Sumerians as opposed to the Indo-Iranians?
Thanks again! Always a pleasure watching all of your videos!
Honestly, I have no clue. It could be a case of a technology lost only to be reinvented a good distance away from the origin point. For example the Antikythera mechanism is the earliest form of a computer we know of with the knowledge of it being lost after the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire only to resurface, first with Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage and then in the form of the ENIAC, the first modern, electricity driven version of a computer. Incidentally my dad’s parents, my grandpa and biological grandma (I never met her since she died before I was born), actually worked on the ENIAC. I wish my grandpa was still alive. He was a bit more knowledgeable about the history of computers than I am. Also he would have loved this channel, he was such a history and art lover.
Belief in modern religions, especially the Judep-Christian trio that was birthed in these regions, always baffles me; particularly Young Earth creationists who believe the Earth was made some 6000yrs ago, when we have vast evidence for existence and religions far predating them. As well as "Biblical" stories that were clearly remakes of earlier stories i.e Noah > Atrahasis > Ziusudra > Utnapishtim!!
When the lockdown began in Dec of 2019, I decided I'd start to learn Sumerian cuneiform. Though still new to it, it's easy to see that it is a most elegant and simple (in it's own ways) language; difficult to learn by yourself and kidnapping the [Irving] Finkel would be frowned upon; such an interesting, knowledgeable guy!
I have also had thoughts of kidnapping Dr Irving Finkel so I could learn to read cuneiform. Lol.
It’s been 6 days and I’m jonezin for a new Cy episode. Anyone got some bootlegs.
Just put a new one out! Hope that it's worth the wait...enjoy!
Look identical to Hattusa art work too
Get an agent. Get paid for that voice.
That and thanks for educating and entertaining with equal aplomb.
Haha thanks, don't really get compliments for my voice so appreciate it! More on the way, stay tuned!
This was great! Can you do artifact vids for Egypt and Greece etc?
Yes, one day I hope to expand to other regions, including Egypt and Greece. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! More on the way, stay tuned!
please have a focus on some of the artifacts destroyed by isis in 2016 when they bulldozed nineveh
Hi! Yes, actually I thought of that but at the moment, I'm not sure what specifically they destroyed. I know there were things at the Mosul museum that they smashed but I don't have any info on the specifics. But yes, I think that's a good idea to do one day, thanks for the suggestion!
this is the first time i see how cy looks like and he looks like pretty like i was expecting
Haha thanks, I hope that's a good thing! More on the way, stay tuned!
@@HistorywithCy oups i meant to say "you look pretty MUCH like i thought you would" as in you like like i imagined😅 but yeah, i enjoy the content. 'll be tuning in
It's your standard ancient construction barrier
Do the end panels of the Standard of Ur have any meaning, or are they just decorative?
Hi David, thanks for the question! To be honest, I'm not sure of the specific meaning (if any). I've seen that motif of the animal (in this case what looks like a deer) and a human together. Some say that's it's to represent man's harmony with nature or it could also mean man's domination of nature, but in this case I really don't know. If I find something more, I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks again for the question, appreciate it!
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Hey cy can you tell me a little bit about the diaadachi
Yes, coming up later this year after I cover the life of Alexander the Great. Thanks for your interest, appreciate it!
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I know you don't mind friendly corrections, Cy, so a triangle "flattened at the top" is just a _trapezoid._
😂 you're right, I don't know why I didn't think of that, especially since at one time I used to be a geometry teacher! 😂😂 I clearly like history a lot more. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it, stay tuned for more art and geometric figures (have some triangles, pentagons and octagons coming up in future programs) lol!
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Looking forward to more geometric shapes to come.
If that head was Naram-sin, shouldn't it have the attributes of a god, as Naram-sin claimed deity?
That's a very good point - Naram-Sin later on during his reign did claim to be a god. Some art historians believe that it may be Naram-Sin simply because the style is closer to that of other objects that have been found from closer to his reign (though none as detailed as this head/mask itself). Come to think of it, it could have been of a local governor or noble since we don't know where it originally was crafted. Perhaps by Assyrian times, the object's origin had become the stuff of legend, much like, for example, the shroud of Turin. I guess though we'll never truly know just who the head is suppose to resemble. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy That is a very good point. The head could’ve been crafted somewhere else and was carried to the location it was found in, either by trade or as a spoil of war.
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Dude. You just broke down the biggest mystery right in front of my eyes. This channel reached a ho-nubba-levah.
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Thanks and greetings from the other side of the pond! Thanks for stopping by and more on the way, stay tuned!
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The wagons are being drawn by Kunga. Then described as stronger than a donkey and faster than a horse. Bred in the countryside they are were a hybrid of a wild horse and donkey now extinct.Too bad,sounds better than a car😉
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Can we get a arab vs sassanid wars ?
Yes, hopefully in 2022... still have to do Roman-Parthian wars before that! Thanks for the suggestion, appreciate it!
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Why do we think it's Sargon the Great if we don't know who it is? Great video!
I get the impression that it's something like an educated guess... It's from a period that's close enough in time, Sargon is the famous guy, so...
By the way, I am under the impression that the mask of Agamemnon is also most probably not Agamemnon's, but was just so named because of the excitement of the time...
Another great video Cy, love the channel!
@@markospoulios8128 Yeah it's the same with the golden death mask from Mycenae... Schliemann just called it that because Agamemnon was famous as being the king of Mycenae from the Iliad, but we don't really know who the mask belonged to. Kind of also like "Priam's Treasure" at Troy. There's no evidence that it belonged to king Priam of Troy but they called it that and the name stuck. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it... more on the way, stay tuned!
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