Thank you so much! Thanks for fighting the alien conspiracy theories!
@tombender4380 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! The Nimrud lion set is one of my favorite pieces of ancient Near Eastern sculpture/architecture and they even featured heavily in my undergraduate dissertation (written on heritage damage in Iraq).
@maggie8324 Жыл бұрын
nice to see you back. ( big smiley face)
@panqueque445 Жыл бұрын
I had no idea there was paint remnants in some of these. That makes me wonder, do we know what they would've looked like fully painted? Are there any paint remnants anywhere else to try and do a color reconstruction like they did with Roman marble statues?
@artifactuallyspeaking Жыл бұрын
There are some paint remnants, though some are now microscopic. And some reconstructions have been attempted. The Metropolitan Museum of Art did an interesting virtual reconstruction of the NW palace at Nimrud and put a video walkthrough on KZbin. At 1:36 in the video they show a reconstruction of a painted apkallu relief: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4emnZedZrmXfsU
@david_1214 Жыл бұрын
Always enjoy your videos! Hope to see much more from your dig!
@DeiDeiMuffinxD Жыл бұрын
ooh thank youu!!! I only went there for one day.. Not enough time😅 I am sooo looking forward for your next video ❤
@DemienC. Жыл бұрын
I wonder, if reliefs were colored, those long horizontal inscriptions were made before of after painting? If before, those script would be smoothed out by paint and flaking out paint later.
@pattheplanter Жыл бұрын
Too much chance of damage to the rest of the paint if they were done after, I think. From my own experience of home decoration.
@DemienC. Жыл бұрын
@@pattheplanter That's exactly what puzzles me. Both ways, before and after, have their minuses. Would be interesting to know how it really was.
@artifactuallyspeaking Жыл бұрын
It's a really interesting question and I don't have a direct answer. I don't know if there are paint remnants in the cuneiform wedges but I don't think so. If they painted after the inscription then you would think the signs would be filled with paint. But maybe they left a strip unpainted where the signs would go? Or, as you say, maybe they cleaned out each character after painting; or painted around them?
@DakiniDream Жыл бұрын
@@artifactuallyspeaking or painted them in a different colours. Maybe one day we will know.
@grizzerotwofour7858 Жыл бұрын
Really makes me sad so much of Mesopotamia was dug up in the 19th century. Imagine all the important sruff they trashed
@MrSnowmandeath Жыл бұрын
Seeing all the stelae covered in cuniform relief writing makes me curious on how we know it is the first language. Is it assumed that charcoal writing came first? I can't imagine the first medium a writer picked up was an unfired brick of clay.
@artifactuallyspeaking Жыл бұрын
There were cave paintings long before 'writing' as we think of it, and those probably told a story. But they weren't written language in a systematic way that we use to define scripts. They did record numbers, though--counts of things like moon cycles. In Mesopotamia we can track the development of writing, and damp clay does seem to be the first medium used. They painted on pots before, but none of those symbols replicated a direct system of speech. The symbols on seals that were pressed into clay to demonstrate ownership, plus the clay tokens that were used to count things, become rather systematic and seem to be the precursors of actual writing in Mesopotamia.
@kalrandom7387 Жыл бұрын
What is the handbag for? I don't believe it was aliens anything, nor Crystal powered spaceships bulshit. But the handbag does show up in different cultures carvings. I would really honestly like to know what the handbag is 4 from each culture?
@artifactuallyspeaking Жыл бұрын
They likely represent different objects in different cultures. It's hard to depict a 3D object in 2D and the handled objects could be bags, buckets, or baskets in use for different things. In Assyria we find copper buckets that have handles that are likely the physical representation of the object in the Assyrian reliefs. In the depictions, they are usually shown held by a mythological being that holds a cone in the other hand. We believe it shows a ritual where the being (or perhaps a priest dressed like this in an enacted version if done in real life) dipped the cone into a liquid in the bucket (blessed water?) and then sprinkled it on the king or person to be protected. We also find solid stone objects with 'handles' that are weights. They are carved in one piece and the handle portion would have had a rope tied to it to anchor something like a tent. These are not the objects represented in the reliefs, since we can see in the relief that the handle hooks into the loops of the bucket, but if they were represented in a 2D relief, they would look like the 'handbag'. I use this as an example of different objects that might look the same but are vastly different in use. I don't know what the representations in other cultures are meant to show, but most cultures had buckets, bags, or baskets to carry or hold things. And we need more than a single somewhat similar looking icon to establish a definite connection between cultures.
@gelatinouscatgirl8369 Жыл бұрын
"Alien dissemination of handbag idea" is probably the most conspiracy theory thing one could come up with. Why would humans across the globe need alien help to invent a bag or any other device to hold carry things around 😄
@DakiniDream Жыл бұрын
I mean, it's very old stuff now. In the 60s there was already books around with same/similar theories of an G. Handhock and cohorte. I remember, my father had some books of this kind. So nothing new,. And exactly what comes up with most "urban legends" (let's call them so). While i can understand that it may seem very surprising, especially put side by side, what is often done in these books, people should slightly know it better after all the years. But dramas, mysteries, and conspiration theories selll so much better. 🙃
@Whitewing89 Жыл бұрын
The British museum, one of the largest crime scenes in the world.
@neva_nyx Жыл бұрын
Humans are amazing animals! Just look at what we can do with basic tools. I love Mesopotamia ❤
@KasumiRINA9 ай бұрын
About excavated artifacts now being kept in Iraq: yeah, that turned out for the worse. Giving Hong Kong back to China didn't either... Can't really cancel colonialism and its consequences especially whete there's some batshit insane empire cosplayer faction nearby.
@napalmholocaust9093 Жыл бұрын
Don't waste my time by mentioning stupid aliens, even in jest 👎 unsubscribed.