Seeing some of this site up-close like this is a real treat. Please dont be afraid of making these videos longer and more in depth. It would be much appreciated.
@mamaharumi
11 ай бұрын
Also, the destruction of sites across the region by ISIS and the Taliban is legitimately heartbreaking.
@kylewhelan23
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely Fascinating
@tracymetherell8744
11 ай бұрын
Interesting and informative, thanks.
@abandoninplace2751
11 ай бұрын
Fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to record and edit these videos.
@richardsweeney197
11 ай бұрын
Always a pleasure, thank you Dr.
@MoadikumMoodocks
11 ай бұрын
Thnaks again for all your work.
@MuriKakari
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely love these videos
@Bildgesmythe
11 ай бұрын
Always love when you upload a new video.
@4quall
11 ай бұрын
Great timing
@sypialnia_studio
11 ай бұрын
Exciting, videos in situ are always the best archeology videos!
@holly50575
4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@SenorEscaso
11 ай бұрын
Really cool! I've been reading Eckart Frahm's book about Assyria, so I actually recognized the name Adad Nirari III!
@cschools
11 ай бұрын
👍
@christinawolf5657
11 ай бұрын
I'll be watching for more videos, thank you! If you're willing, it would be great to learn how Iraqis are continuing to be involved, or if political/economic realities are just too stressful for their government to allocate resources to archaeology right now?
@artifactuallyspeaking
11 ай бұрын
Iraqis are very much involved. It's difficult for them to raise the large funds that are needed in rebuilding and so a lot of the money for cultural heritage work comes from the international community, but it is largely Iraqi firms and people that do the work. We work directly with Iraqi archaeologists from the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (an Iraqi archaeologist representative in every trench we dig) and we hire local workers to do most of the digging. In this way we also put money into the local community and the Iraqi government oversees everything we do. All of the artifacts we uncover stay in Iraq and we can only study them there.
@christinawolf5657
11 ай бұрын
That's great!
@hh4826
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the amazing work you do and thanks for sharing. Are there any anthropology KZitem channels you could recommend to us?
@ne2ko714
11 ай бұрын
of course the british museum had to have a piece of this
@gazeboist4535
11 ай бұрын
First question: what is a "lustration slab"? From context on the second one, it sounds like it's a place for bathing, comparable to the floor of a shower stall?
@artifactuallyspeaking
11 ай бұрын
We don't really know how the lustration slab was used. Since the depression in the middle doesn't go through like a drain should, it's hard to see it as a shower stall. But they may have used heated water here to 'purify' people or things in a brief cleansing.
@gazeboist4535
11 ай бұрын
@@artifactuallyspeaking Ah. Getting some "birds are lizard-hipped dinosaurs" vibes.
@pattheplanter
11 ай бұрын
Great stuff. If you want to give historians of a later period a humourous frisson, add clouds to the wrist of your indicating hand and turn it into a _manus dei._
@Cat_Woods
11 ай бұрын
It always makes me curious how a city or large building complex comes to be abandoned and buried as is, with people still living in the area. I just think of today. If a building is condemned, it's brought down, the land leveled, and something built in its place. I mean it's wonderful and fascinating that so much is there to be discovered. I'm very glad of it. But I just always wonder how it came to be that it's there to be uncovered.
@artifactuallyspeaking
11 ай бұрын
Leveling and rebuilding did happen within active cities in the ancient world, but when an entire site is attacked and burned by an enemy it might be left to decay in place. The Medes and Babylonians destroyed Nimrud and Nineveh in 612bce and, although there may have been a few squatters in the ruins after that, the Neo-Assyrian empire was no more, so their cities were mostly abandoned. At Ur it seems more to be the lack of water that caused people to abandon their city. As the river moved farther away, it was harder to obtain the water needed and it was better to resettle elsewhere. Conditions for a large city never reappeared there, so the site was covered by the years.
@Cat_Woods
11 ай бұрын
@@artifactuallyspeaking Thanks for responding! Very interesting.
@maggie8324
11 ай бұрын
Yer, ~I'm just going to say " hello sweetie". Hello sweetie (smiley face).
@TealCheetah
11 ай бұрын
Wait, what are the tram rails used for?
@artifactuallyspeaking
11 ай бұрын
We think they are for positioning a hot brazier or water kettle (perhaps moving it from the heat to a place near the lustration slab where hot water can then be used.
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