Origins of the Amorites : Bronze Age invaders that united an empire

Sometime during the third millennium BC, a group of nomadic raiders expanded out of their mountainous homelands in Syria and stormed Mesopotamia. They were known as the Martu or Tidnum to the Sumerians, and the Amar to the Egyptians. These names denote ‘of the west’, or ‘the western people’. In the Book of Genesis 10:16, these people are referred to as the Amorites, descendants of Canaan.
The scriptures also state that the Amorites had gigantic chiefs and warriors among them. Amos 2:9 compares the size and strength of the Amorites to the cedar tree, while in Numbers 32:29-32, the Amorites are among the peoples ‘of great stature’ encountered by the Israelite spies.
The Amorite chief Og is described in Deuteronomy 3:11 as ‘of the remnant of giants’. In Akkadian, both the Amorites and Syria itself were named after Amurru, a deity of the Amorites. Amurru is also known as Belu Sadi, or ‘Lord of the Mountains’, while his divine consort, Belit-Seri was ‘Lady of the Desert’.
The MAR.TU are mentioned in a tablet from Tell Farah dated to around 2550 BC. MAR-TU/MAR-DU appears on the 24th-century BC Ebla Tablets as a name for both a geographic region as well as its inhabitants. According to Lönnqvist (2008) some scholars have specifically identified the Amorite homeland with Jebel Bishri, a mountain region situated between Palmyra and the Euphrates River.
Similarly, Michael Astour (1992) has also traced Mar-du.ki (the Amorite homeland in the Ebla Tablets) to Jebel Bishri. The Mari texts make it clear that during the Bronze Age, Jebel Bishri was the territory of at least two Amorite tribes: the Suteans and the Yaminites.
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[@rohayeha]

The right pronounciation as per the paleo hebrew bible is "Amere or Amr" not "Amorite or Amrt". Why are western scholars twist the truth?! And those the middle east came from the tribe current living in Ethiopia known as "Amara" who speak Semitic language

[@rohayeha]

Canaan and Amere, the so called Amorite, are son and descendet Ham respectively, and Ham is African/Ethiopian. Also Cush and Canaan are brothers both of whom are sons of Ham.

[@jcastle614]

Very interesting, love the origin videos !

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This is very interesting video That's why I keep coming back

[@iesureloaded6139]

Very interesting video. Need to see more like this about the Giants and "men of renown..."

[@SisterWomen]

I love these information videos. The videos of Dr David Neiman here on yt contain his compelling belief the Hyksos were Amorites.

[@natanaeloliveira366]

The funny thing is that some images used here are from a biblical Brazilian soap opera that portrays Ur and the amorite invasions. Good job by the way!

[@rluppi]

What is it called?

[@LuizHenrique-fe2mk]

@@rluppi genesis

[@sari8438]

Respect for the ancestors of Arabs.

[@tomtaylor5623]

no they're not...

[@user-kh4xe4hf7o]

​@@tomtaylor5623 The Arabs are j1-p58 like the Amorites

[@user-vs7gv4cn8o]

​@@tomtaylor5623they're yes

[@alexcholagh8330]

@@user-vs7gv4cn8o partially along with the moabites,nabatenes and ahlamu

[@donnie27brasco]

@@tomtaylor5623 Tough and brave nomad warriors, appear in the deserts between Iraq and the Levant, their names are Arabic, and some of their gods are also Arab gods, they settle and then establish great civilizations whose languages are similar to Arabic, yet you say that they are not the ancestors of the Arabs?! So who were they?! The ancestors of the Chinese?!. Note that the Arabs came later to carry out the same social sequence: nomads, conquest, settling, establishing a civilization, and spreading their language and culture.. except that the Arabs went even further, reaching Egypt and all of North Africa and even Spain. It is clear that the Arabs inherited the genes of adventure and travel from their Amorite ancestors. Even the drawings on Egyptian temples clearly show their traditional Arab features: light-brown skin, black hair, beards, and even their women had smooth, flowing hair.

[@mikkopenttila7604]

The pictures w/ camels are anachronistic. Amorites would not have had them.

[@CaraCha212]

@Keith Busch No. Canaanites.

[@mohamadnaseebaldabbas9473]

Yes they had

[@jackarnon5483]

Where do the graphics come from? Specifically the human figures of the Amorites. Who were the artists and what did they use as a model for the figures?

[@bag6483]

The ancestors of most Arabs of the peninsula amorties have haplogroup J1-p58

[@MrTonyJ]

In addition to DNA studies of modern Assyrians, I would be intrigued in an episode on the DNA of Sicilians and past Arab and North African influence.

[@ramih7528]

I think that the amurrits kingdom was in the coast not in the dassert and there main city was amrit near the city of tartous. as you can see the map at 5:26

[@justkenzie]

If I recall correctly, the ammorites also worshipped Moloch... the god whose statue was also a sort of fire altar where they would place their live babies for sacrifices. This was why we see that the Living God commanded His people NOT to allow their children to "pass through the fire" in the Old Testament. God abhors the evils of these pagan religions for good reason!

[@TheRealTomahawk]

The first born for wealth and prosperity

[@abedejong6799]

The curse of Noah to Kanaan after the Flood worked out through the Amorites, because of their CHILD Sacrifices to Moloch, the vertility idolgod. The same activities still in 2023, abortion sacrifices to the idolgods EROS, LUST, EGO, and AMOR!

[@GTKJNow]

Amorites got destroyed by large hail stones probably 100 lbs by the Creator of the Heavens. He will do something similar in the future see Revelation Book for details.

[@gauismaximus595]

Moses killed children and also don’t forget god killed the children of Aaron

[@bradlyclark8943]

The Isrealites came from the amorites. The Isrealites also practiced child sacrifice A LOT. READ UR BIBLE DUDE

[@sebolddaniel]

"Jebel" means mountain in Arabic

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

Cant watch now but just wanted to help the algorithm

[@andybeans5790]

I think you may have overdone the audio processing on the Ancient Origins blurb at the end, you sound like you've been huffing lighter gas 😉

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Familiar with the effects of that, are you?

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reminds me of Star Tek Voyager where it sounds like they put nitric oxide in Janeways inhaler

[@richardlecomte6839]

An interesting culture..amorite?

[@juniorberns]

alright... lets see.

[@sarkissati1217]

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[@pabloalvez915]

The Amorites were one of the Semitic tribes. Probably from the Northeastern branch. A truly disruptive group.

[@il967]

Northwest

[@pabloalvez915]

@@il967 yes, you're right. Sorry

[@rohayeha]

The right pronounciation as per the paleo hebrew bible is "Amere or Amr" not "Amorite or Amrt". Why are western scholars twist the truth?! And those in the Middle East went from the tribe current living in Ethiopia known as "Amara"

[@benicdovic5071]

@@rohayeha they change all history by lie,nothing is truth from them lie and propaganda,and used image in this case to describe in ancient people looking same of picture or image,someone who don't know they trjth he will belive them,they change history and name of place,they created place by name middle east and they created nation or race by name semetic people all this lie,they original name of "middle east" is ethiopia and frmo afroasatic language to semetice language..and go on

[@alexcholagh8330]

Amorites still exist there known as chaldeans Assyrians/assuri and syriacs today.

[@robertsanders7060]

Very creepy advertising ending to this otherwise informative video

[@danieldelathauwer4494]

My wife name is C. Martou in French is Martu in English but I don't think she is a descendant or one of the last? Daniel Gent BE

[@rohayeha]

The right pronounciation as per the paleo hebrew bible is "Amere or Amr" not "Amorite or Amrt". Why are western scholars twist the truth?! And those in the Middle East went from the tribe current living in Ethiopia known as "Amara"

[@dumuzidtherisingphoenix]

what your father in law look like? he is the amorite not your wife.

[@danieldelathauwer4494]

Sorry he was a Martou like his father @@dumuzidtherisingphoenix

[@dumuzidtherisingphoenix]

@@danieldelathauwer4494 is he look like bashar alashad?

[@danieldelathauwer4494]

@@dumuzidtherisingphoenix He was born in England and look like an English gentelman in WW1 a nice Belgian boy and soldier in WW II, he had no interests in the Levant. Daniel Gent BE

[@mhmdalhaj1954]

From the area of east syria, thanks for covering the history of the area and the people!

[@kaarlimakela3413]

Historic art is a tricky matter ... I saw Amorites of over 2,000 yrs ago riding war camels ... This did not happen. Camel domestication to the point of riding and warring, simply came much later.

[@CaraCha212]

Nope, camels were a thing more than 2,000 years ago. Even as far as 1000 BC.

[@CaraCha212]

I mean we're talking about camels, not some elephants. Not like camels are foreign to the Middle East. Why would anybody be surprised if they were used in the Syrian desert since forever? It would make zero sense for amorites to never encounter camels.

[@mohamadnaseebaldabbas9473]

There was an Assyrian discription of warriors rid camles I think they existed far a long before.

[@abdosaky5394]

The genetic remains of the Amorite antiquities have been examined, and they are of the J1 strain

[@sebolddaniel]

"Tel binat" means "girls' hill" in Arabic

[@Sara-bs9rz]

The Amorites are the ancestors of the Arabs

[@Michael_De_Santa-Unofficial]

No.

[@Dani-wc9cu]

Absolutely not. The difference between Original Arabs and the Amorites is huge in term of Autosomal (Global 25): Distance to: BedouinB:HGDP00653 0.08861727 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM012 0.09303550 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA035 0.10155475 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA026 0.10159953 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM005 0.10338746 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM023 Distance to: Yemenite_Al_Bayda:Y070 0.08857790 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM012 0.09752399 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA035 0.09996843 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA026 0.10007606 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA017 0.10170597 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM005 Distance to: Saudi:saudi1403 0.09478189 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM012 0.10486196 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA035 0.10972063 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA026 0.11126836 TUR_Alalakh_MLBA:ALA017 0.11311515 SYR_Ebla_EMBA:ETM005 Look at this difference : Distance to: Saudi:saudi1403 0.03835480 Yemenite_Al_Bayda:Y070 You see ? It's not the same people. The closest people to the Amorites today are part of the modern people of the fertile crescent.

[@user-kh4xe4hf7o]

​@@Dani-wc9cu Arabs and Amorites descend from j1-p58. We Arabs are the closest people to the Amorites

[@TheRealDaddyAbe]

Yes they Are 100%

[@TheRealDaddyAbe]

@@Dani-wc9cu You can’t compare a bunch of ancient samples to modern samples and then say look there’s no similarity using G 25 coordinates that doesn’t make any sense

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[@earlrussell1026]

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[@abdosaky5394]

The genetic remains of the Amorite monuments, which are of the J1 lineage from which Jews and Arabs descended, were examined

[@Amazila]

Jews are not descendants of the Amorites

[@mhmdmor2170]

I'm Amorites from Syria

[@rohayeha]

Canaan and Amere, the so called Amorite, are son and descendet of Ham respectively, and Ham is African/Ethiopian. Also Cush and Canaan are brothers both of whom are sons of Ham.

[@Julia-wh4hl]

White people are the amorite

[@abdosaky5394]

The genetic remains of the Amorite monuments, which are of the J1 lineage from which Jews and Arabs descended, were examined

[@reportedstolen3603]

@@abdosaky5394 only Y-DNA? They didn’t do mtDNA as well?

[@Amazila]

​@@abdosaky5394i tell you again, the Jews are not descendants of the Amorites

[@donnie27brasco]

Tough and brave nomad warriors, appear in the deserts between Iraq and the Levant, their names are Arabic, and some of their gods are also Arab gods, they settle and then establish great civilizations whose languages are similar to Arabic, yet some claim that they are not the ancestors of the Arabs?! So who were they?! The ancestors of the Chinese?!. Note that the Arabs came later to carry out the same social sequence: nomads, conquest, settling, establishing a civilization, and spreading their language and culture.. except that the Arabs went even further, reaching Egypt and all of North Africa and even Spain. It is clear that the Arabs inherited the genes of adventure and travel from their Amorite ancestors. Even the drawings on Egyptian temples clearly show their traditional Arab features: light-brown skin, black hair, beards, and even their women had smooth, flowing hair.

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Yes, we are tall basketball players even today :) And excelent sportsman/warriors comparing to our small population. Average height even today in Hercegovina, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Western Serbia... i. e Dinaric branch is above 185cm, often 2 meters (my uncle for example) . We discovered bronze technology also near modern Majanpek/Bor copper mines. We also invented first letter - Vinca script and after this expansion we spreaded it into the Middle East. Zigurat, gora is hill/montain/up, something high in our language (like guru, PythaGora...). Syr(b)ia. (S) arabia. Jabel Serbal = Mount Sinay. Bel means white, Nino Belov=Nimrod, founder of Babylon. Dionisus=God from Niš, Nais(Niš city and river, where also Constantine The Great was born). Utnapishtur (in Gilgamesh) instead Mt Ararat call in Mt Niš+ir. Bahus=Bog, i.e. God. We also have mountain name Golija (Goliat vs Da+vid, vid means view/sight, we had god Vid) which means big, golemo. Egypt = Aegeus+pat (road/path). Nil =Il+ovača (mud). Ur - we even today often have male name URoš... In Hungarian it means Sir, it is similar with German Her...

[@rohayeha]

The right pronounciation as per the paleo hebrew bible is "Amere or Amr" not "Amorite or Amrt". Why are western scholars twist the truth?! And those in the Middle East went from the tribe current living in Ethiopia known as "Amara"

[@user-kh4xe4hf7o]

Sumerian writing is the oldest writing in history

[@alexandartheserb7861]

@@user-kh4xe4hf7o No, thats just politics because Jews are from that region and want to have priority. But today eveeyone can see on internet Vinca script/writtings, although there was much more lost in WWI. Even their oldest calendar can be seen on web (calen is from kolo=coil, dar=gift, meaning gift of the circle, year) although theirpaid scientsts try to prove Egypt discovered calendar. Desert was for sure not good enough to start first world civilisation.

[@alexcholagh8330]

The amorites still exist there called chaldeans Assyrians/assuri and syriacs today

[@user-hx5qz3tv8b]

Amorites are of the same stock as the warrior tribes of inner Arabia. The Christian & Muslim peasantry of Iraq & Syria are of Anatolian, Armenian, Iranian, and Kurdish origins.

[@Sara-bs9rz]

The Amorites are the ancestors of the Arabs

[@alexcholagh8330]

@@Sara-bs9rz Nabateans are the arabs ancestors

[@GTKJNow]

Amorites got destroyed by large hail stones probably 100 lbs by the Creator of the Heavens. He will do something similar in the future see Revelation Book for details.

[@alexcholagh8330]

@@GTKJNow the amorites became part of the syriacs

[@MrXanderthegreat1]

They mightve been black

[@tonyu5985]

Shem's decedents

[@il967]

Amorites were the germanic invaders of ancient Mesopotamia

[@rohayeha]

The right pronounciation as per the paleo hebrew bible is "Amere or Amr" not "Amorite or Amrt". Why are western scholars twist the truth?! And those in the Middle East went from the tribe current living in Ethiopia known as "Amara"

[@freandwhickquest]

Calling them germanic would enter the zone of pseudoscientific grand narratives.

[@il967]

@@freandwhickquest ITS A FUCKING ANALOGY!

[@freandwhickquest]

@@il967 sorry. i have an idea but no proof. According to both greek oral traditions and hittite scriptures, mychaeanean greeks called themselves as achaean. (Pronounced like akhaian). We also know from the avesta (earliest surviving proto iranian text) and vedic sanskrit that authors of those texts called themselves aryans as an ethnonym. I feel that "akhaian" and "aryan" may be related and eastern branch of indo europeans (including early greeks) may call themselves as some thing like aryans. R sound can easily turn into kh as like the french R sound turned into kh like weird sound.

[@il967]

@Etruscans civilization Do you understand what an analogy is? If you are incapable of comprehending what I'm alluding to, I don't think your are intelligent enough to be capable of having a conversation about such matters.

[@tonyjemz777]

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[@luckymasters1034]

We

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[@twonumber22]

@@tonyjemz777 What? The only hyper-anything is you with the same comment across the whole internet.

[@tonyjemz777]

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[@rohayeha]

The right pronounciation as per the paleo hebrew bible is "Amere or Amr" not "Amorite or Amrt". Why are western scholars twist the truth?! And those in the Middle East went from the tribe current living in Ethiopia known as "Amara" who are Semitic language speakers

[@rohayeha]

Canaan and Amere, the so called Amorite, are son and descendet Ham respectively, and Ham is African/Ethiopian. Also Cush and Canaan are brothers both of whom are sons of Ham.

[@slightlybetterthanaveragej6777]

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