Posted on 07/03/2019 9:13:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Hartmut Kühne, University Professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, presents "The Collapse of the Assyrian Empire and the Evidence of Dur-Katlimmu".
The collapse of the Assyrian Empire was the prelude to the end of the Mesopotamian domination of the Ancient Near East in 539 BC to be followed by the Persian hegemony. The metropolitan core region of Assyria laid waste, as is known from extensive excavations in the Assyrian capitals; neither the Babylonian nor the Median successors cared for a reconstruction program. But how did the Assyrian home provinces survive the collapse? This poorly known chapter of history is now elucidated by the long term excavations at Tell Sheikh Hamad (Syria), the Assyrian provincial centre of Dur-Katlimmu. In historiography long thought to have vanished, the Assyrians prove to have lived on, as the archaeological evidence unmistakably demonstrates.
Hartmut Kühne | The Collapse of the Assyrian Empire and the Evidence of Dur-Katlimmu | Oriental Institute | Published on April 8, 2014
This guy's voice reminds me of Lawrence Welk's. :^)
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
I have not watched this one linked below, I just liked the graphic better:
The History of the Assyrian Empire
Nabopolassar, the Chaldean, was allied with the king of the Medes and the prince of Damascus; Assurbanipal, the Assyrian, was aided by Pharaoh Seti and for some time by the king of the Scythians. For many years the fortunes of war changed camps. Then Nabopolassar and Cyaxares, the Mede, brought the Scythians over to their side. Their armies advanced from three sides against Nineveh. The dam on the Tigris was breached, and Nineveh was stormed. In a single night the city that was the splendor of its epoch went up in flames, and the centuries-old empire that ceaselessly carried sword and fire to the four quarters of the ancient world - as far as Elam and Lydia, Sarmatia and Ethiopia - ceased to exist forever.
The End of Nineveh | Immanuel Velikovsky | The Assyrian Conquest
Who moved Memphis to Egypt?
Sounds like severe cultural appropriation....
Ah yes. The Red House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SlSokLN4c
Two millennia later Nineveh was less than ruins. It had become a site completely buried and grown over with grass. The locals called it "the mound of many sheep". Napoleon campers there and had no idea a biblical metropolis had been where he stood.
Much lesson for any country, there is in that.
Probably someone walking with his feet ten feet off of Beale.
That's where my baby stays.
Will have to watch the videos later - curious to know if they found any writing on the wall...
There's a graffito, the last Assyrians left a message, "we are abandoning Nineveh and taking refuge in the fortess of ahhhhhhhhh..."
Two millennia later Nineveh was less than ruins... Much lesson for any country, there is in that.
Yeah -- that 2000 years is a long time for unmaintained buildings that were burnt with fire to still be standing. Not exactly a four leaf clover.
Quest for the lost tribes of Israel (Pashtuns or Pathans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9nFZJeh9Bo
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D9nFZJeh9Bo/hqdefault.jpg
Quest for the Lost (10) Tribes of Israel - Documentary [Full]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WuzB78HTQ
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l4WuzB78HTQ/hqdefault.jpg
Quest For The Lost Tribes Biblical Documentary Timeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xm3OuHlsUA
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Xm3OuHlsUA/maxresdefault.jpg
Quest For The Lost Tribes (Biblical Documentary) | Timeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdYbQKthqoE
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZdYbQKthqoE/maxresdefault.jpg
Quest For The Lost Tribes | Feature Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0QCPXnAPNA
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S0QCPXnAPNA/hqdefault.jpg
It is generally agreed that the location of Halah (in Hebrew with two letters kheth, transcribed as h in scholarly texts), or Khalakh, is not given to identification. (2) As to Gozan, the texts of II Kings 17:6 and 18:11 speak of Habor by the river Gozan; also I Chronicles 5:26 speaks of the river Gozan. In Isaiah 37:12 it can be understood as a region or a people of a region. The correct translation of the two passages in the Second Book of Kings is "to the confluence (habor) (3) of the river Gozan."
Biblical scholars who sought for the place of exile of, first, the two and a half tribes of Israel by Tiglath-Pileser and then of all the tribes of Israel by Sargon upon the fall of Samaria, decided that the river's name was Habor and Gozan was the region. They have therefore identified Gozan with Guzana, modern Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria. But this interpretation is a violation of the texts. Looking for a river Habor, they thought to identify it with the tributary of the river Euphrates mentioned in Ezekiel I:3 "the word of the Lord came . . . unto Ezekiel . . . in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar." However the spellings in Hebrew of Habor and Chebar are different, the river Khvor (Chebar) is not Habor, and the latter is not a river at all. Furthermore, the co-called river Chebar is actually an irrigation canal. (4)...
Assyrian occupation of Scythia is not a mere conjecture: it is confirmed by archaeological evidence. "The earliest objects from Scythia that we can date," writes a student of the region's antiquities, "referred to the VIIth and VIth centuries B.C., are under overwhelming Assyrian influence. . ." (6)
The exiles who were removed from Samaria, a city of palaces and temples, no doubt, bewailed the capital they had heroically defended for three years against the army of what was, in its time, the world's most powerful nation. Accordingly they might have called their new settlement Samaria (in Hebrew Shemer or Shomron; Sumur in the el-Amarna letters).
On the middle flow of the Volga, a city with the name Samara exists and has existed since grey antiquity. It is situated a short distance downstream from the point where the Volga and the Kama join...
Had the Khazars been converted to Judaism, it would be almost incredible that they would call their city by the name Samara. Samaria was a sinful city from the point of view of the nation that survived in Palestine after the fall of Samaria, and out of which eventually grew the rabbinical Judaism of later centuries.
The conversion to the Jewish religion would also not imply the adoption of the Hebrew language. It is remarkable that the state language of the Khazars was Hebrew...
Beyond the Mountains of Darkness by Immanuel Velikovsky
[Egyptians] are the only people in the world -- they at least, and such as have learnt the practice from them -- who use circumcision... They practise circumcision for the sake of cleanliness, considering it better to be cleanly than comely... the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times. The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine themselves confess that they learnt the custom of the Egyptians; and the Syrians who dwell about the rivers Thermodon and Parthenius, as well as their neighbours the Macronians, say that they have recently adopted it from the Colchians. Now these are the only nations who use circumcision, and it is plain that they all imitate herein the Egyptians. With respect to the Ethiopians, indeed, I cannot decide whether they learnt the practice of the Egyptians, or the Egyptians of them...
Histories, book II: Euterpe by Herodotus, translation by George Rawlinson, transcription by Daniel C. Stevenson
watching this one now, incomprehensible intro, awful speaking voice by the lecturer. Ubaid roots of the Uruk period.
The Ubaid period (6th-5th millennia BC) saw the first establishment of towns and villages across Mesopotamia. This period provides the first evidence for the emergence of political leadership, economic differences between rich and poor, irrigation-based economies, dominating regional centers or towns, and the development of temples in these centers. In this lecture, Gil Stein discusses recent excavations at the Ubaid-period site of Tell Zeidan in Syria and the expansion of Ubaid culture across Mesopotamia.
Gil Stein | Exploring the Roots of Mesopotamian Civilization: Excavations at Tell Zeidan, Syria | Oriental Institute | Published on October 7, 2010
I'm not sure I did a GGG Digest ping this week. To be on the safe side, this is it.
Here are the other GGG topics introduced this week. Some of these were added because they were related to Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, or the screenwriter of the movie because he passed last week.
And then to Tennessee?
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