Nimrud: Ishtar Temple, 2023, part 1

[@Shavone2024]

Im excited to see the finished project

[@richardsweeney197]

Thank you Dr. Our past is too important not to try to understand. Thank you for taking us with you.

[@MrRodrigomarcola]

I´m so glad ppl like you dedicate to publish youtube videos, is a delight every time!

[@ShagShaggio]

Neat. Cheers!

[@Deinareia]

Thank you for sharing these insights. They are incredibly interesting peeks at your work.

[@Stewie-Griffin]

I can't handle seeing the damage by isis as if the destruction by the Medes and Babylonians wasn't enough 😢

[@NemoA90]

nothing new under the sun, unfortunately

[@AcanLord]

i certainly hope everything goes well there and lots can be salvaged.

[@jaivuetasoeur]

That channel deserves more visibility. It's incredible stuff right here.

[@richardvanasse9287]

It must be hard to see all that damage first hand.

[@ArtBellJr]

Thank you for the work you are doing there. I am so fascinated by the story of the Assyrian empire . I also am currently studying the accounts in 2 Kings 19 about Sennacherib and his conquest of Israel and King Hezakiah. The Sennacherib prism is the cuneiform account. And the relief on the palace walls showed the siege of Lachish. From the High Desert in the great American Southwest I bid you all a great morning or evening as the case may be .

[@jackdaniel4446]

Many thanks for showing us these things, there is true beauty in understanding the past, or even just the attempt to do so. It shocks me to know that these sites, which have lain (relatively) unmolested for so long can be the focus of such ire and denial. It's excellent that there is sufficient stability now for there to be proper excavation, preservation, and interpretation. There is solid physical evidence there to show us how people who nearly everyone by now must class as their ancestors lived and worshiped, and how a society existed. To think that this knowledge could have been lost and destroyed by deliberate action is very sad indeed.

[@daniellassander]

I used to believe that history was unimportant but i was so wrong on that. The past holds many stories which havent been told, and they should be. There is a lot to learn as well, it shows us potential dangers we always face.

[@Bildgesmythe]

Glad something survives man's insanity.

[@bartbuckel6714]

Fascinating as always. Thank you Dr. Hafford for continuing to share these things with us.

[@kylewhelan23]

Outstanding content

[@maggie8324]

Wonderful. yes, wonderful.

[@EdrickBluebeard]

My heart breaks every time one of these sites is destroyed. I remember weeping over this...

[@sheygra5721]

I find your videos fascinating!

[@ebonypeals7089]

Breaks my heart that a group of people would want to destroy such priceless things. Locations like this all over Iraq are very precious to all of humanity’s past & proof of our existence & intelligence over the decades

[@luochoa]

Thank you Dr. Hartford for another amazing update on the work going on in Nimrud. If I may ask, what is your opinion on the location of Akkad, the capital of the Akkadian empire? How come we haven’t found it? Are there any other famous cities from history (not Atlantis and myths of the sort) that we haven’t found?

[@artifactuallyspeaking]

I don't really know where Akkad (also written Agade) is, but I think it was probably somewhere near Baghdad. Perhaps it's even buried beneath Baghdad. I'm not certain about other famous lost cities. Most that are famous are entirely or largely mythical, like El Dorado or Atlantis, as you mention. Besides Akkad, there are cities that we have clear mentions of in cuneiform records that we still haven't found, like Irisagrig. These aren't famous in the sense that most people would have heard of them, but I'd like to see Guabba found. Cuneiform texts suggest it might have been a port city in Mesopotamia but with some population from the Indus civilization. It was heavily involved in the weaving industry in the Ur III period.

[@neva_nyx]

They blew up some things and took a bulldozer to her ziggarat. Ishtar wins again. They are defeated and Ishtar's holy of holies stands. They must have failed to read her epitaphs 😊

[@JohnVance]

Man that site has been so fucked with, it's gotta make your job so much more difficult.

[@inyobill]

Shades of the (Taliban?) destroying colossal statues of Buddha. So, so sad.

[@777dragonborn]

I get why they destroy false gods and idols of gods , but theres another fact those that those who destroy history are aslo bound to repeat it.