Nimrud: Ishtar/Ninurta Temple, Spring 2024

[@HummingLantern27]

I'm kind of surprised how much actually survived being destroyed. It's still depressing, but I'm glad so much is still there!

[@erictjones]

All of the damaged artifacts must be heartbreaking. Thank you for your work!!

[@MrKapouetsky]

You are so interesting. Discovered your channel with Milo and so glad I did. Not in the slightest affiliated with the world of archeology and its one of my biggest regrets. Keep up the great stuff. Thanks for everything!

[@peterdrieen6852]

Same here, both in regard of finding this channel and about archeology.

[@Myrtlecrack]

Samesies

[@kylecassidy3391]

Looking good doctor!! We really appreciate your bringing us there and showing us things! Can't wait to see the national geographic folks!!

[@richardsweeney197]

Always fascinating!

[@serenityphawx]

I love all the extra details and insights! This tour brings the site to life and feels like I'm really there. Thank you so much!

[@ShannonKWard]

Thank you for such a detailed tour! It’s really great to see what a real working dig site looks like.

[@richardvanasse9287]

Thanks for the tour. 👍🏻

[@jackdaniel4446]

Thank you again for another tour. I hope you managed to find those giant lions! Do you find many cuneiform inscriptions other than those telling us how great their leaders were? Do you find more mundane things, like signposts, or communications, or are these things much rarer? Clay tablets have the ability to last a very long time, and so it feels like there's a chance at finding a real treasure trove of information from our ancient past.

[@artifactuallyspeaking]

Signposts would be very interesting, but we haven't found them. With the Assyrians we typically find this sort of monumental propaganda, but we also find business records, particularly lists and receipts, and sometimes we get letters. We have also found land grants or treaties. These are the sort of documents they might keep in temples. Mundane writings might be in palace storage or in houses. We hope to dig such things as well, but for now we are helping understand and repair the major buildings so that this can become a place for people to visit.

[@EdrickBluebeard]

Thank you.

[@Blondiej1]

This was a fascinating tour. Here’s to hoping you find the lions!

[@cynthiadugan858]

❤

[@guillemetteschlumberger8929]

thanks ! the floor is so beautiful, ans its all so interesting, im a french amateur researcher, fond od egypte and mesopotamia

[@kylecassidy3391]

I'd love to see a model of what this temple might have looked like in VR!

[@degolaskoma8607]

Hail ninurta 🖖

[@neva_nyx]

Perhaps the deities have sent the gnats to see what's going on in their temples 😊 thank you for showing us such amazing structures!

[@DaveLopez575]

Amazing 😮

[@pi3.1415-y]

I find it so interesting that you film everything in "selfie" mode😆

[@Divig]

Now I am curious what the inscriptions of the floor tiles say.

[@ArtBellJr]

Please do a video on the treasure of Nimroud. Last I heard it was missing. Can you confirm this or tell us where it has been since the war.

[@Mkalikapisa-ui7by]

In the mid 1980s the ziggurat remained clearly visible

[@drfill9210]

Is it possible that room was a toilet?

[@grizzerotwofour7858]

I get so pissed every time he mentions ISIS destroying the sites. Trashing your own history? What the fuck!?!?

[@choronos]

It's religious fundamentalism. Many of the sites and artifacts they destroyed were remnants of polytheistic cultures, and ISIS believes polytheism to be heretical and blasphemous.

[@SpeedLockedNZ]

The Floor Script could of be Read by Feel while seated, or served & a protective inscription,

[@maximilian672]

I am still baffled that ISIS destroyed so many of these old ruins. It makes so little sense. Was there even a single person in the last couple hundred years that worshipped the old religions practiced there in ancient times? Why did they feel so threatened or offended by a long dead and basically forgotten cult?

[@choronos]

It's largely because those sites and artifacts belonged to polytheistic cultures, and thus their mere existence was heretical and an egregious affront to God in the eyes of ISIS. That wasn't the only reason by any means but I'm hardly an expert on religious zealotry.

[@Cat_Woods]

The idea of people actively destroying their own history is so sad to me. Religion has a lot to answer for.

[@mausercawley]

Destroying artifacts and archeological sites 🤬

[@sempi8159]

How?

[@xXScissorHandsXx]

​​@sempi8159 Maybe they mean the attacks on the site not the excavation of the site? If not, wake up it isn't the early days of site preservation lol. Edit: Definitely thinking they meant the attacks on the site. It was a shock to see the before and after from the photo shown, to what is remaining in the video. To sell off and destory our collective world history is an unthinkably cruel thing to do, especially for our next generations.

[@xXScissorHandsXx]

Idk how my reply was non-compliant. Maybe it was too casual, but whatever. Part way through the video, the gentleman shows a photo that is the site before it was pillaged. So it is safe to assume the post is to that regard, not the actual archeology being conducted. Even said this as maybe in my first reply. Came here to fix it, realizing I should put the edit on top, especially when I saw the rest of the video but found a void where it was here, just the "How?"

[@mausercawley]

@@sempi8159 With a bulldozer, apparently.

[@LordCoffie]

Love your videos, but the two voices talking on top of each other made it very difficult to listen

[@aleanarobins2651]

I weep at the loss of such great history by religious zealots.

[@cuteswan]

I can't help but imagine that the kids studying writing had their practice slabs taken to be used as floor tiling. Kind of like elementary school kids making a quilt but a bit more hardcore. BTW Let's hope National Geographic won't use your work in "Ancient Aliens" or some other pseudoscience show.

[@mckracken8314]

dont say ISIS for the terrorists. it is an insult to the egyptian god

[@JamesKroen]

Mosul was relatively a new area for Assyrian Kings- Sennacherib and his dad before him. Nimrud is much, much older - close to 3000 years prior to Sargon II. You are searching in the wrong place.

[@fireballninja01]

I would strongly disagree with the plants being called weeds. nothing native is a weed

[@JamesKroen]

Whose idea was it to go to Mosul and search for Nimrud? For 3 years, I have been seeking financial backers to carry out my project 'Nomad Usaily' there. Yet, there you are. I have been let down in the worst way. Not only have I been marginalized, but my project has been exploited.

[@CrimKangaroo]

Hover battle, but no hover pads allowed. Just thrusters and logic.