Ancient Apocalypse: The Akkadian Empire | History Documentary

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In 2334 BCE the Akkadians conquered and united the Sumerian city state kingdoms to create the world’s first empire. The Akkadian’s ruled over much of Mesopotamia, what is now modern-day Iraq, Syria and Turkey, but after only 140 years the Akkadian Empire fractured. Entire regions of Mesopotamia descended into chaos and the Akkadian Empire’s very existence was lost to history. Now archaeologists scour the Middle East searching for information about how they became so powerful and why they collapsed.
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[@questjoyner5086]

Back in those times, they practiced erasing you from history. Erasing any form of history is an injustice to humanity.

[@mainerockflour3462]

Tell that to the "Holy See" that have history buried in their underground tunnels.

[@nelsonbrum8496]

Erasing history? You mean like removing statues of critical historical figures?

[@brycefraz]

Braindead

[@janicebillington2633]

​@@mainerockflour3462 The Smithsonian is just as guilty.

[@ukestudio3002]

Removal of confederate statues and street names ? Bringing down sadaam husein’s statue ? Destruction of Nazi statues and propaganda posters?

[@senecaknowsbest8380]

We can only cry when we imagine what was in the library of Alexandria and hold in utter contempt the barbarians who destroyed it.

[@megahamartolos6638]

That barbarian appears to have been Julius Caesar. The library fell victim to fire secondary to the burying of ships that blocked Roman access to the harbor.

[@barryallison7583]

The Vatican looted The Library of Alexandra then burn it down!! they have milies of hiddend documents and artifacts

[@christine2ehgtinyhouse893]

I have that same thought about what knowledge was lost when that Library burned.

[@drstrangelove4998]

😅​​⁠@@megahamartolos6638 that is controversial, a small part of the library was damaged and quickly re-built. The war and burnt ships are mentioned but none of the Roman historians mention the library being burnt. Others say Islamists destroyed the books when the conquered Alexandria, in 641 using the books to heat the many bath house furnaces.

[@NullStaticVoid]

@@drstrangelove4998 Actually we ony have knowledge of the Greek philosophers because the Muslims preserved it. A lot of Muslim scholars in the middle ages were Neo-Platonists. This preserved knowledge was transmitted to Europe because of trade between Europe and the Caliphate and basically sparked the renaissance.

[@seanmadison6360]

It would be nice to see these documentaries without war drums banging randomly in the background.

[@NONANTI]

That's racist. Some people can only learn when information is set to music.

[@Rory695]

​@@NONANTII can only learn with videos of subway surfers gameplay playing below it

[@geoffreyhdavey]

Try fall of civilizations, classier presentation

[@Mingliki]

I was unaware that auditory learning was a race. ​@@NONANTI

[@toddaulner5393]

I see this alot, people complaining of the background music being loud and distracting. I hardly notice it though. I often wonder of a bunch of people have ear wax balls bumping against their ear drum or something.

[@Andy_Babb]

I love this series. So glad they did an episode on the Akkadian empire bc there’s so few documentaries on that empire. Thank you for uploading!!!

[@muffin6369]

Two websites both have done the Akkadian. Also history time, and history with Cy just to name a few excellent history channels just awesome content That would be the great Peter Kelly and Cy. These guys are such professionals. And of course when you can find them In Search of the Trojan War written and presented by the great Michael Wood!!! Anything by Bettany Hughes LOL

[@BeauchampBrianPj]

😊😊😊 and 😅😮😢😢🎉😊😊​@@muffin6369

[@oalmikee1234]

Thanks for sharing your time. ​@@muffin6369

[@yoshimitsu8643]

Don't let anyone just dump whatever they want into your mental factory Stay guard at the door of your mind

[@Andy_Babb]

@@yoshimitsu8643 I mean, I don’t generally believe everything I see. Most people are idiots.

[@joanhuffman2166]

Well, if a city was destroyed by a lightning storm, 🌩 I can see why the ancients thought the city was cursed by the gods. 😮

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

And who knows...

[@JoeBoxerNo1]

take a look at THE BURKLE CRATER ... thats your answer.

[@joanhuffman2166]

@@JoeBoxerNo1 but who saw that or recorded it?

[@DumaM-ir7rk]

@ joanhuffman2166 well did you know the older people in Africa knew how to create lighting. Hence here in South Africa people sometimes threaten each other with lighting. What if another group or civilisation created lighting and fought with this empire that was clueless

[@joanhuffman2166]

@DumaM-ir7rk really? Creating lighting or lightning? Really? How? Video or it didn't happen.

[@magister.mortran]

This is an anachronistic modern interpretation of the events. The contemporary view can be read in the Sumerian Kings List. The "Akkadian Empire" was not an empire with a beginning and an end, but a single dynasty of a much longer lasting empire (Namlugalu). Sargon of Akkad had succeeded the dynasty of Uruk, and his dynasty was followed by the Gutian dynasty, who were as foreigners not well respected by the Sumerians. Their rule was an economic disaster an they were soon overthrown by a rebellion of the governor Uto-Hengal. After him Ur became the new dynasty of the Empire. The fall of the Akkadian dynasty indeed coincided with a drought, but more important was that Emperor Naram-Sin had committed a sacrilege against the temple of Nippur, the spiritual capital of the Empire (similar to Rome in the Middle Ages). The drought was seen as a punishment by the gods, especially Enlil (the Curse of Akkad), which caused religious tensions within the Empire. This made it easy for the Gutians to invade and overthrow the despised Akkadian dynasty. So it was rather a religious than a meteorological crisis. Sargon had mot been the first emperor (lugal), nor was he the last. Just as he had moved the imperial residence from Uruk to the newly founded city Akkad, it was moved back to Uruk by Utu-Hengal and after his rule to Ur. These were imperial residences, not the formal capitals of the Empire, where the high-priest of Enki resided, which was the E-Kur in Nippur. This can be compared to the imperial residences of the (Holy) Roman Emperors in the Middle Ages. They moved according to the ruling dynasty, while the formal capital of the Sacrum Romanum Imperium was always Rome, where the Christian high-priest, i.e. pope, resided. So no, it was not an "Ancient Apocalypse", just a crisis of the Sumerian Empire and an interregnum between two dynasties.

[@baardhelmen8408]

Great summary, there was bt problems in the longest farmed fields of Akkad and Sumer, at the end most crops except barley failed to grow due to traces of salt accumulated. Farming started, like, roughly, 7000 years ago. By the time of the third Sumerian empire this was an important factor. And there was barbarians ie pastoralists everywhere. And they fought with each other between city states like mad. Cheers

[@Pleides1111]

Wow thanks 🎉😮

[@Pleides1111]

. Turkey . 7,000 years before this . The botbelly temple complex . agriculture & wheels . What about those forefathers ? The FLOOD # X. 😊🎉

[@Pleides1111]

PotBelly .

[@Pleides1111]

🐝🫧 Göbekli Tepe potbelly Hill . NeoLithic not

[@verlongates2279]

The most fascinating thing is that the ABSOLUTE determination to find an answer leads to the 'deciphering' of the 'undecipherable' language. Imagine spending ten years of your life just to learn how to read an ancient language. We owe so MUCH to this determined, brilliant man. His contribution is as important TO US as the contribution of the Assyrians who compiled the library, and the Akkadians who wrote the tablets. Wonderful information. THANK YOU.

[@df5826]

You're going to ignore the other OLDER sites that show that civilization started before this video suggests? Remember that part in the video where you talk about historians discovering a civilization that they had no idea existed and they had to adapt. It sure does seem like modern historians CAN'T adapt to new information as well as they did in the past. Too bad really. It's keeping us from really understanding our history but it sure does keep those books selling.

[@visamedic]

Civilization and Empire are two completely different states. You come upon a small inhabited cabin or village in a wilderness, you found civilization. It may be part of an Empire or it may not be. An Empire is made of many civilizations united by a government.

[@df5826]

@@visamedic The point I'm making is that there is clear evidence that Humans were more advanced at a far earlier time in history than we are currently teaching. It's not difficult to find the evidence but it seems to take far too long for the timeline to be updated to reflect that maybe when we thought we were cavemen, we weren't and we were actually more advanced already. Science these days seems more rooted in keeping those who are experts, selling books and teaching, rather than trying to learn and update what we know. It's more about the fact that change is hard because those who have been teaching certain things don't want to not be experts anymore because they were wrong.

[@RobOfTheNorth2001]

@@df5826what are you talking about? We’ve been revising our understanding of the past at a faster and faster pace because the scientific analytical tools are getting much better. Science doesn’t stand still, but it can still take years to prove new findings.

[@JNCressey]

​@@df5826, They're not even saying that people before the Akkadian empire were less advanced. Ancient Egypt existed before this empire. Ultimately, it's just a video that is specifically about the Akkadian empire, and the side note that they're the oldest to fit what we call empire is quite unimportant.

[@aliciasavage6801]

actually "apocalypse" translate into "lifting of the veil", it doesnt mean the literal ending of the world, just an ending of the illusion.

[@meilinchan7314]

Hmmmmmmmm.

[@jasonblack6142]

Yes ,yes..

[@annalouux8553]

Apocalypse is a Greek word it literally means to reveal. Take it from a Greek

[@scotthcomyns3426]

Epoc of the elipse You know..celestial progression.

[@cuebj]

​@@scotthcomyns3426? Weird nonsense or joke about stupid irrelevant plays across different languages with vaguely similar sounding words?

[@davidbryant3223]

amazing thank you for posting this

[@aaronsanborn4291]

I served in Mosul in 04-05 the history there was amazing

[@mandelorean6243]

It's a shame how primitive and corruption they've.. stayed? Receded to?

[@oshadhakandawela7658]

Superb series! I’ve watched sea people one. Now this.. excellent presentation! Thanks keep up ❤️

[@tanler7953]

We have the Assyrians to thank for the 30,000 clay tablets found in the library at Ninevah. The Assyrians were intolerant and cruel and made many ennemies. When Ninevah fell the entire city was burnt to the ground. But the fires hardened the clay so that the tablets survived intact.

[@PMabq]

Lesson to be learned: drought is the normal condition of the North American continent. The Anasazi empire of the SouthWestern US was abandoned to drought around 1300 AD. This cycle of drought topples civilization, over and over. We need to know more about El Niño and how to counter its effects if we wish to stabilize our societies. When there is drought, there are failed crops, and starving people who rise up against governments, as happened most recently in Syria. in the last 20 years.

[@bobthebuilder9553]

Drought and a lightning storm. What do they have in common? We live in an electric universe. drought? Of course, there have been droughts throughout history. Whatever generated the layers of dust and plastic must have come from a powerful source.

[@JulieBullard-ol8ly]

Thank you for saying that

[@bidensdiaper394]

But...but...Muh climate change!!! 😢 lol

[@KevinSterns]

They Syrian people rose up against their government because the CIA paid them to do it.

[@RobOfTheNorth2001]

@@bidensdiaper394who said anything about climate change? Droughts are a normal cycle. Climate change will make them appear in places we may not expect.

[@massimosquecco8956]

Well The end of The Accadian Empire falls at the same time the Egyptian Old Kingdom collapsed: something big must have been happend in the Middle East in those days...

[@luisochoa731]

Sargon of Akkad, the original Mosses story. And The laws of the city of Akkad became "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" As a side note: If they only had driven electric cars and did not use fossil fuels, they could have avoided climate change.

[@AlterBug]

Trace for us, we luv to see more. Thank your for sharing this documentary.

[@wholovesyoujoe]

I thought their demise was through soil erosion, climate change and pummeling one another. The study of how people did their thing 5000 years ago is fascinating.

[@aspenrebel]

That dang climate change. It was all Donald Trump's fault.

[@YogiMcCaw]

I learned a lot from this video! Thank You! One lesson is that following the science to the very end can not only explain many things, but also make you realize you don't know the final answer until you do follow the science until the very end. I was thinking a volcano, or perhaps an above-ground asteroid impact about halfway through the video. But further science revealed the great drought. Another thing I learned is that plastic polymers can be formed naturally. I always thought all plastic was manmade, just as Dr Courty thought when she first discovered the plastic in the geologic layer.

[@billrobbins5874]

Appreciate the learning gained from this. 👍

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

​​​.​​@@billrobbins5874 As Marie Agnès Courty CNRS, France was reflecting about how to interpret her plastic macromolecules, different from those of modern fuel- derived industrial plastic, and with the presence of Titanium oxide TiO, found within the ashes from Tell Haman and the 350 km.distant Tell Leilan in Mesopotamia and well knowing that plastic can be produced only at high (500 -900 °C) temperatures, she supposed that what was needed to explain the contemporaneous formation of plastic residues in both Tells, was a volcanic explosion! As she was informed that a victim of a fulguration presented something " like plastic" in his wounds, she analysed the burned tissues and found plastic with the same natural composition as her mesopotanian plastic ! This was the proof,that both Tells had been exposed to high volcanic temperatures due to the explosion of a volcano.! This also would explain the persisting darkness, cold temperature, stop in vegetal growing, the ashes mentionned in the narrative, the famine and the fact that the population fled in search of a territory where they could see the sun again ( the see peoples), the grounding of the egyptian civilisation and the Bronze Age Collapse ! But which volcano would have had such a tremendous effect ? the sudden collapse of the harappan and the akkadian civilisations, with consequences between mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece ?The only fitting candidate could only have been the Thera volcano ,that had registered erruptions : 3 between 100.000 and 10.000 years. 6 between 10.000 and 1000, and 3 between 1000 and present time, among whose the one having for ever cancelled the Minoan thalassocraty ! This Thera erruption wad dated with 14C and dendrochrolologically, establishing the date of 1650 BC ,which could allow to correct the imprecise chronology of events around the supposed year 2000 BC. for the whole apocalypse of our Orient !.

[@mdb1239]

Without the Rosette Stone of Darius the Great - the Behistun Inscription - a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription written in three different cuneiform scripts nothing would have been deciphered.

[@birgip.m.1236]

lnteresting.

[@09bloodthirsty]

When we uncovered city of Agade after the excavations we may learn the truth behind the collapse of Akkadian empire.I hope Agade the capital of first empire will be found in near future

[@JoeBoxerNo1]

that or take all the evidence they told us about in this documentary and add it up to the BURKLE CRATER , and thats the answer

[@SeikhSayedAaman-qm6fx]

I really loved this kinds of documentary. Keep its on😊😊!!

[@nethvegz3465]

Informative thanks ❤

[@kevinappel1847]

Can you imagine if the tablets had read "DRINK MORE OVALTINE"

[@silvershadchan4085]

@Get.factual could you please upload a video about the Ancient Apocalypse: The Assyrian Empire | History Documentary

[@user-vf8np5fb3l]

It’s in the Bible from the beginning of them to the end of them.

[@Friedsteel]

Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary.

[@Andy_Babb]

Right?? I can count on 1 finger the number of Akkadian empire documentaries I’ve seen. This series is great, I really hope they have a second season

[@Mechanb]

Wow. excellent work. love the work into really deciphering clue!

[@pamlaw5959]

This was so very interesting thank you

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏

[@get.factual]

thank you for this comment💘

[@ayakoendohigh1369]

I have long been interested in this period of history. Never, NEVER have I seen a more infirmative documentary on the subject!

[@colemarsh13]

Excellent content

[@Edgar-kl6us]

So, now I wonder if the Akkadian King was actually a nephilim, a giant of mankind, … because that might explain why depictions of him show him being twice the size of his soldiers, … which could date the Akkadian empire, … sounds like perhaps the governing forces moved towards removing those in power, every so often, and electing new ones in their place, …

[@TEverettReynolds]

@39:43 "A 300-year drought". Didn't a 300-year drought also contribute to the collapse of the Bronze Age also around 1170 B.C.? Tree ring data seems to show strong evidence. (Maybe if they all just stopped burning their fossil fuels these droughts wouldn't have happened... Am I right or am I right? )

[@user-hn2bo2pn7t]

Sumer predates the akkadian empire . Sumer had written laws on clay tablets the same as the akkadians.

[@Geeserunner]

Thank you!!! The fact this isn't being acknowledged is really frustrating. And they say the Akkadian empire came from seemingly nowhere..?!? This "documentary" is a joke.

[@Geeserunner]

And that they say the assyrians are different from the Akkadians... That's Ike saying New Yorkers are their own civilization within the United States. The Akkadians came from..... Akkad! This i couldn't even get through twenty this video. If anyone wants to know about the real rise and fall of the Assyrian empire check out the fall of civilizations by Paul M M Cooper 😊

[@CatMowpurr]

Sumer wasn’t an empire. It was a civilisation of city states, which was clearly mentioned by them multiple times in the video. Sargon unified them into an empire when he conquered them. After the Akkadian empire fell, the Sumerians did build the Neo-Sumerian empire though.

[@CatMowpurr]

@@GeeserunnerThe Assyrians in the Assyrian Empires starting from the Old Assyrian Empire to the Neo-Assyrians mentioned in this video may have been partially descended from Akkadians, but it is a different empire, with a different dialect of Akkadian. And with the history of the Assyrians, you can’t say it’s just a continuation of the Akkadians, so it’s important to maintain a distinction. You wouldn’t call Americans British even though America was founded from a British colony. People change the makeup of the empire after 300 years, let alone the more than 1500 years of the Assyrian empire. The Assyrian empire and Akkadian empire were not contemporaneous unlike New York and the US lol

[@Geeserunner]

@@CatMowpurr Akkad was a city lol

[@mojoman9847]

They got teached by a advanced civilization. Like smelting for instance, who would had dared to stay this long in a forge to see a result after smashing a hot piece of metal??

[@SAnn-rf3oz]

Giants in the world in those days, and after.

[@wernerdanler2742]

Excellent analysis. 😊

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Love watching your documentaries.

[@Andy_Babb]

… this channel doesn’t actually _make_ the documentaries. They upload some great content, but they don’t produce them 😂

[@sturzuus]

@@Andy_Babb Yep they got them from viasat history, at least the this one and the sea people one.

[@Andy_Babb]

@@sturzuus yeah I don’t usually know where they’re from bc in the US we get crap and have like 2 educational channels with any actual production value lol dokuwiki is really helpful for me with locating topics and documentaries from other countries… that aren’t on KZbin. I love how the UK has so, so many different channels and a seemingly infinite number of programs dedicated to history. I just get so frustrated bc even though I find the names of some really great looking series there’s no way for me to view them no matter where I search. Damn. Sorry that was _long._ lol

[@scotthcomyns3426]

Big copper statue's on top of those zigaurat's. No wonder they were zapped by lightning.

[@iamme6773]

Drought, and dust storms could've ended the empire. Makes sense. But, I'm having a real hard time wrapping my head around a single dust storm causing mega-lightning that wipes out, not one, but several cities that are quite a distance from each other. Are they sure that there's nothing else that could've caused the burning and plastic?

[@SamC77]

space rocks landing are also known to release huge amounts of energy. if the impact is not on land, but in water, it would not leave a crater for us to find, but it would blast a huge amount of water vapor into the atmosphere a bit like a greenhouse. that also can rapidly heat up the climate by a noticeable amount. usually you just need several of these disaster events to make a combo that destroys nations and empires by a series of chain reactions. something screwing with the climate as well as a well timed volcano eruptions would easily do it.

[@LyubomirIko]

El Nino have been recently linked 1:1 to the Sun activity. Weird plasma events and droughts? You guys knows the Sun can produce those, right?

[@maxscholle8932]

Funny how they got the date based on the weather pattern. Yet they missed older major weather patterns.

[@MrJonsonville5]

We know what fractured the empire, and the descendants of the survivors brought the Akkadian empire back. The fires of the wars destroyed the libraries and baked the tablets and made them so strong that they survive to this day. And we can read them, and they tell the stories about what happened. Multiple rivalries and wars. No apocalypse.

[@greggkroodsma8197]

The sun could've caused that like what happened in Maui.

[@TheTruthIsOutThere33]

From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: Sumer and Akkad from 2350 to 2000 bce "There are several reasons for taking the year 2350 as a turning point in the history of Mesopotamia. For the first time, an empire arose on Mesopotamian soil. The driving force of that empire was the Akkadians, so called after the city of Akkad, which Sargon chose for his capital (it has not yet been identified but was presumably located on the Euphrates between Sippar and Kish). The name Akkad became synonymous with a population group that stood side by side with the Sumerians. Southern Mesopotamia became known as the “land of Sumer and Akkad”; "

[@InvaliDidea123]

Britannica is corrupted. It's the wikipedia for academics.

[@themessenger33]

Noah Ark ship length 6 km width 2 km rivet-like nail 15 tons.

[@jean-rochdion4898]

​@@themessenger33you mean.... Ziusudra/Utnapishtim!!!

[@themessenger33]

@@jean-rochdion4898 There are photos. but such a structure I have not seen every 20 meters a giant wedge that were stapled, 4 boards stapled with a nail, the board 150 cm.

[@jean-rochdion4898]

@@themessenger33 my friend, I was not talking about the boat!! it's a Sumerian/Akkadian story.... not Abrahamic psyops story!! not Noah but Ziusudra/Utnapishtim, the Abrahamic story It's a copy of copy of copy of the original story.... that was modified....re written to fit the Abrahamic holy psyops.

[@aaronsterlind6334]

By the way, there's no mention of shattered bodies or bones from the "lightning" event that produced a shock wave big enough to blow over stone buildings so I have to assume that during the event the people had already fled the area. Not to mention the flash over thermal event that burned everything in the absence of oxygen, a plasma event or thermal event of such magnitude followed by massive shock waves would have most likely killed every single human being in the area and there would have to be some evidence of human remains in such a large human death scenario. Especially since everything was rapidly covered in a layer of dust or basically buried.

[@dessiewatkins1006]

We shouldn't forget that tectonic plate movements can trigger both volcanoes and earthquakes. And also tectonic shifts can cause drastic drops in aquifer levels contributing to drought conditions.

[@timmer2007A1]

Very interesting. That is about the time the tower of Babel was supposedly built and destroyed. Here we have scientific evidence of lightning strikes. I also thought it interesting that nature makes plastics. Hmmmm.

[@RebelGran_01]

🙏❤ for this episode

[@aspenrebel]

I love that ..... "What caused the drought in the first place?". Answer: Ummmm .... lack of water!!

[@aaronsterlind6334]

One more thing, the climate had already been shifting for quite some time in that region as both Uruk and Ur where both, at one time, on the coast of the Persian Gulf. The retreat of the water from the Persian Gulf had a great negative impact on the Sumerians, their city states and their Kings. By the time of the Akkadians the gulf had already retreated far to the south when once even Legash was on the coast.

[@portastsic]

Global cooling

[@voltsbo6156]

Quite surprised why it wasnt mentioned in this documsntary that the sumerian kings' list actually mentioned kings who have ruled for hundreds of thousands of years?

[@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub]

Doesn't gel with established history

[@voltsbo6156]

@@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub oh yeah like what do we expect from mainstream historians/scholars..

[@Harbinger71-wi2pw]

@@voltsbo6156 Can I quote your response to @iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub here on another site? This might be the funniest thing I have read in a long time. "@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub oh yeah like what do we expect from mainstream historians/scholars.."

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Because that is wrong

[@captainsensiblejr.]

​@@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub Archaeology is not a static monolith it changes as new evidence is, literally, uncovered in excavations

[@Stargateluminary]

Also… I believe that the weapons known as Teraphim were (sometimes) the reason for the major dust/sand storms and “disappearing” kingdoms.

[@harrymason1053]

Great story.

[@douglasthompson8927]

" As the empire grew larger there were more mouths to feed " interesting concept

[@Dan-qt7kq]

Maybe trumps relative lived there. He’s ruining one country, why not in the past too

[@Charlie-ii5rr]

Wow this is heavy stuff. I never heard of a Mach 10 dust bomb before.

[@EuroWarsOrg]

look to the sun...

[@kukuri007]

The only dust bomb I imagine ever existed is the one between her legs.

[@DumaM-ir7rk]

@ Charlie-ii5rr did you know humans could create lightning? Well here in South Africa you will come across people who threaten with lightning and few days you will hear that the person just died from lightning

[@etiennenobel5028]

Fascinating

[@robertshand1944]

Wonderful historical records of the intelligent advances these individual cultures manifested in their scripts over all their times.......... Thank you for this information and thanks too the determinations of the archaeologists.....

[@matthewmckever2312]

Also plastic? From dust storms. Didnt know that, that leads to 100 more questions.

[@claudelebel49]

Someday even the mighty Mount Everest will be forgotten. Everything has a beginning a middle and an end. Mere appearances in The NeverEnding play of Existence. Life and existence are Real and all forms impermanent, their seeming stability an illusion.

[@mcs7593]

I loved this video ❤

[@lowekal]

Awesome documentary! Its crazy how science too like anceint accounts backup seemingly biblical catastrophes being responsible for the end

[@mainerockflour3462]

What if their demise was brought about by nuclear weapons? There is a site in India? where the bodies were found to have been flattened by a shockwave, the ground slightly vitrified and radioactive. Ancient Vedic texts talk about those times.

[@pgbokhari]

Please elaborate

[@mainerockflour3462]

@@pgbokhari These are simple posts. They are not collegiate dissertations. I gave you the information, now do your own research.😁

[@obstreperous1113]

@@pgbokhari Mohenjo-daro

[@Hambone3773]

Meteorite airbursts are common in earth history. Compare the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah or that airburst in Russia in 2013 or the one that hit Russia in 1908. They can act like WMDs.

[@tiredoldmechanic1791]

Lightning in volcanic dust clouds is mostly high in the air and not many cloud to ground strikes. I haven't found any reports of the kind of damage reported in this video.

[@oalmikee1234]

Great stories, tables are the most important thing that you can learn about the world.

[@versutiagaming9401]

The production on this is great. Its like im watching a History Channel show

[@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584]

the inhabitants were "forced to flea" so they jumped onto the back of a dog and rode out? closed captioning can be hilarious.

[@toddaulner5393]

Or play Bass really well.

[@markdavis4234]

I cannot watch documentaries that do not contain dates throughout the narrative especially when ranting on and on about the first this and the first that. It's antithetical to the claims.

[@merlin8514]

Outstanding 👌

[@sharktomesmiles]

Im glad I love science and history. But pastic made from nature. I am going to have to sit down for that one. Holy kittens. My only question how many volcanos did go off and how close to this kingdom are they??? I love this, ( I now how to learn how this process fully works. Mind blown away and have tons of questions. Starting with man How mind blowing big was this storm to cover the whole kingdom???

[@assyriannahrin]

Assyrian stopped here, nice documentary 👍🌼🌼🌼

[@thevoiceevents]

Very amazing...

[@scotthcomyns3426]

Awsome doc.

[@daledurham4308]

Recent discoveries show there was at least one significant civilization in the area far older than the Akkadian Empire, where only a fraction of the huge site has been uncovered and thoroughly analyzed by historians. Gobeki Tepe may date from 10,000 BC.

[@alirahim4674]

where this new civilazation

[@jetsett1986]

@@alirahim4674 search for Gobekli Tepe in Turkey

[@cristianroth8524]

Rather than a civilization per se, it was a common ritual ground for a vast area occupied by some of the first permanent settlements. These have started emerging in the Levant with the Natufians, some four millennia before Gobekli Tepe, then took a hiatus during the Younger Dryas, as their proto-agriculture only meant systematically collect wild grasses and couldn't sustain them in the drier climate of the Y.D. Gobekli Tepe's enclosures capture the transition from hunter-gatherers to agricultural societies, as the depictions of wild animals gradually disappear in the "temple's" later stages, but neither it nor Catalhoyuk are proof of a civilization in the full meaning of the term.

[@bonniechase5599]

So, there was a 500 year long El Nino? This needs more study. What could make this happen? Was it just a fluke? Could it happen again at any time? Interesting video, and well presented, thank you.

[@grinningtiki220]

They didn't even have SUV's then!

[@bidensdiaper394]

Greta wud not approve 😂

[@JoeBoxerNo1]

all their evidence points to one major event .... THE BURKLE CRATER ... thats the answer to akkadian empires demise.

[@TEverettReynolds]

"A 300-year drought". Didn't a 300-year drought also contribute to the collapse of the Bronze Age around 1170 B.C.? Tree ring data seems to show strong evidence.

[@TEverettReynolds]

@@grinningtiki220 Maybe if they all just stopped burning their fossil fuels these droughts wouldn't have happened... Am I right or am I right?

[@vincetpainter07]

Love history. Thanks

[@erict1917]

Love it.

[@roberta3530]

Really well done and so Interesting documentary about ancient world... Aside from this, believers in global warming caused by us really have to watch it... Lol

[@lyndaniel3369]

I have always loved reading about archaeology and ancient civilizations, but I never understood why it had to be accompanied by a bouncy tune suitable for dancing! I would---just once---like to watch a video that didn't feel compelled to attach musical notes to the narrator and video. Years ago, such music would be "background" music; it was muted, it was demure, and it did not call attention to itself away from the message delivered by the narrator. So, WHY is it ubiquitous now? Thank you for the research and effort it took to present the INFORMATION in a coherent form. Perhaps the music could be released as a single for purchase?

[@mandelorean6243]

It doesn't need supernatural apocalyptic intro either.. I thought this was something like ancient aliens, almost clicked off it

[@mandelorean6243]

Pretty sure it's an attempt of ratings.. too many would find this "BORRRINNG!"

[@toddaulner5393]

I hardly notice it. Maybe you got wax in your ears hitting your eardrum.

[@taisonzaya3653]

Sumer and Akkadian split into 2 people separated into Assyrians and Babylon. Long live ASSYRIANS!!! 🇮🇶

[@treadinglightly-gg9cc]

Is this by the same crew that did the Sea People doc? Never even heard of them, great doc! Defo watching this one now and thanks for the great content!

[@adec1044]

Surely you should be saying as far as we know this was the first empire.

[@alanedwardjustin]

Maybe he knows something you don't.

[@Andy_Babb]

Exactly. The oldest known empire, until we find an older one!

[@alanedwardjustin]

That is a generic interpretation. You can apply that crazy logic to anything.

[@colinchampollion4420]

​@@alanedwardjustin😊😊

[@1v1thousand]

I think it's pretty certain. If there is another empire somewhere sometime that didn't leave evidence then it wouldn't be much of an empire.

[@billyclyde5129]

This was interesting and well done however it needs a few citations. For instance for the curse of Akkad at 14:53. I would like to read it in the electronic text corpus of Sumerian literature. How about a citation for that one?

[@waynearnold3128]

etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr215.htm

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

Thank you

[@duncanidaho2097]

I think that researchers will tell us that what is now desert, was once much different and was more plains and some forrest. Kings and Pharaohs hunted wild game and lions. Vast areas became verdant fields of grain. The earth’s climate is always changing, and, as far as we know, the Akkadians never drove SUVs.

[@jackkessler9876]

One wonders if there could have been a connection between these events and the patriarch Abraham leaving his home in Ur to migrate west into Haran, now Syria?

[@CjbrkBrooks]

You know they would never admit it.. these droughts are similar to the droughts mentioned in the Bible. Even Egypt suffered. And what about the possibility of a comet or huge asteroid having caused such a blast?

[@jackkessler9876]

@@CjbrkBrooks Who is "they" who won't admit something?

[@jackkessler9876]

@@CjbrkBrooks Who would never admit it?

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Abraham is Brahma. Same story ripped off by the Jews.

[@strawbrryfld1]

Any chance a volcano erupted during that time period ? In the most violent eruptions you do see lightning.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

An asteroid skimming above the ground east-west could have vaporized carbon-based objects, raised huge amounts of dust and small gravel, produced almost constant lightning, and collapsed buildings.

[@tomasbladinieres57]

Excelent!

[@williamliamsmith4923]

They should’ve looked up 4.2k event. A more likely reason for prolonged drought. El Niño does not last more than one or two years and is followed by wet periods. One dust storm wouldn’t create 300 year drought. The whether pattern changed and did Akkad, Indus Valley, and other civilizations in.

[@aircrew705]

Drought made those people run from the cities??? Pull the other leg, it’s got bells on it🤡

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

It made the water brackish killing crops with high salt content

[@2coryman]

I think Egypt was already unified south and north into an empire by then, areas of India as well, and also China and maybe the western cost of South America as well

[@mjsphonefreefriday3994]

Awesome content! Holy cow 🐮 The kings List blew my mind!🐰🕳️ Someone needs to invent a time machine.

[@richardthetroll6758]

Love history

[@fbwthe6]

Pyramids were completed 200 years before these empires began. Something just doesn’t feel right about that.

[@SewingandSnakes]

This is because you have never lived on a farm. These people were not nomads, they farmed wheat. The thing about bales of wheat is that they stack, and when they have been stacked you can take blocks out and create rooms and tunnels within your big stack like wheat jenga. Your kids can then have a super cool playhouse that gets used up over a year. It does not take a huge leap of faith to imagine someone looking at this and thinking 'what if stone?'

[@charlesfenwick6554]

Sumer was not an empire.

[@pabloa2228]

I’m having difficulty finding research articles written by the scholars in this video on this subject.

[@davesbainrps6909]

Likely few dollars into it

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Because they’re not scholars. They’re actors for a video.

[@pabloa2228]

@@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters bingo

[@NONANTI]

Was thinking the same thing when they were showing so many hot archeologists

[@SacredDreamer]

✅ Thank You !

[@jackjones9460]

300 years of El Niño? Three centuries of drought? El Niño may be an affect instead of the cause.

[@JohnGaltGurgi]

I know I should talk about the amazing story uncovered but I sadly fell in love with Rebecca Bradshaw when she came on the screen and forgot most everything else.

[@jackjones9460]

If Rebecca Bradshaw also fell in love with you, forgetting all else is certainly forgivable. If not, we’ll be expecting your update this coming Monday. Got it?

[@hydrolito]

First empire your aware of. Who knows what's all buried beneath the land and water?

[@starshyne25678]

Dramatic intro 👌

[@Kylephibbsky]

I can tell show must be from prior to 2015. Because of the hopeful way it implies that most people in the present day are not obsessed with imminent apocalypse.

[@patriciaeddy7629]

Obsessive wealth in the hands of the few and abuses of land and wildlife always bring on chaos and calamity of civilizations

[@humanehumanity]

Manishtushu is still a name used in northern india. Iranian kings that came latee the west doestn want allod usto connect so disrespect calls them out of thre real name.by different one like ofr example cyrus reall.name is kuroush darius is darivush

[@SacredDreamer]

LOVE THIS ! 🙏 ..Fascinated with the deciphering story .. I started sounding as syllables En-Ki-Do "A-KAD-I-AN" .. and it came to the killers part ..and I wonder if this is Cain' - (Bible Fame) bloodline .. after the flood .(..?

[@SacredDreamer]

Erm, .. The King was a GIANT.

[@SacredDreamer]

(Do excuse me for sharing my thoughts) The Use of Water for Crops reminds me of MEXICO in the day of The Az-Tec ..who built similar "pyramid" structures as A-Kad..and had lakes they built up land patches in - to grow food.. Very Sophisticated.

[@SacredDreamer]

.. 🤔 The Aztecs "vanished" too .. I think .. and .. THAT FIRE IN MAUI 😱

[@SacredDreamer]

😱 The Turkey and Syria Earthquake 😭

[@cannagrama]

Fire

[@user-mb1rv7xm8j]

please provide list of sources to authenticate your documentaries.