The Cruelest King of Assyria | Ashurbanipal | Ancient Mesopotamia Documentary

Ashurbanipal was popular among his people but merciless when dealing with enemies. His obsession with collecting knowledge led him to construct The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, which has been referred to as "the most precious source of historical material in the world"!
Ashurbanipal Biography
685 BC - 631 BC
The Cruelest Assyrian King
Ancient Mesopotamia Documentary
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[@nathanfleischman9856]

Who's next? Nebuchadnezzar? Cyrus the Great?

[@elmajraz6019]

Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Darius, Alexander, Ptolemy, Cleopatra

[@feereel]

This is the history of the new world....in the old world ( the Americas ) human homo sapiens we're living in organized societies thousands of years before the Egyptians ... Taking nothing away from so called ' western' historical narratives but we also have our own historians and narrative of human history that goes back further than any other culture on the planet . Humans crossed the Bering Straights from the Americas into Siberia not that other way around... Remember that the European Enlightenment occured as a result of knowledge of art science mathematics , human hygiene , medicine , law and government , sculpture , astronomy , agriculture ,biology , ect brought back to Europe to be studied and copied ..thus the term ' enlightenment '....even the US Constitution was copied from the Iroquois Confederacy after being discovered by Ben Franklin...

[@elmajraz6019]

@@feereel bruh, bring your proofs to support your claims your shi. 'Amr bin Shu'aib narrated from his father, from his grandfather, that during a Khutbah, the Prophet (ﷺ) said: *"The proof is due from the claimant,* and the oath is due from the one the claim is made against." Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1341

[@nathanfleischman9856]

@@elmajraz6019 You forgot people from China and India, like Confucius, the Buddha, Ashoka, and Qin Shi Huangdi.

[@reportedstolen3603]

11:27 " I took pleasure in reading stones inscribed before the flood" ...Man, we need those tablets! This proves, the ancients had knowledge of humanity going back further than we thought.

[@HistoryExplained]

It’s so fascinating to think about!

[@carbonturk7200]

Current Human History is only 3598 years...just short of 3600 yearly Nibiru (Not real) cataclysm on Earth...! Current Humans are CARBONS...because...this is the Age of CARBON...All life is Carbon...! Previously...it was not the case...! Ashurbanipal knew or understood this from the texts he read... Giants / Nephilim / Anunnaki were SILICONS...Silicon Man of SILICON AGE...All life was Silicon...! There was more...LEADs / FLEROVIUMs / TINs / GERMANIUMs... Elemental Parts of All Ancient Scripture is taken out before presenting it to the public (As in this video) therefore; Most of the stuff sounds like a mish mash of who's done what to whom...?

[@shengsun5916]

Yes, and my research has shown that the 4 ancient civilizations as we were taught are survivors of the flood. And one can see that the Egyptian(Wiped out by Assyrian Babylonians possibly, although teachings survived by the Greeks), Zoroastrian (Persian Babylonian), Hindu and Daoist traditions all kept part of the antedeluvian knowledge in the form of astronomy, metrology, music, medicine and ritual magic. In fact British imperial sysyem is another evidence why I stated in another comment that they and their German ancestors of Assyrian Babylonian origin also kept part of the ancient knowledge.

[@HoriaNeagu]

@@shengsun5916Is mythology your field of research?

[@shengsun5916]

@@HoriaNeagu Theology and Chinese medicine.

[@spazzypengin]

I love how so many writings from that region back then included all the things that the king had done for the person who was rebelling/conspiring/etc. "He rebelled against me. ME, the guy who did x, y, z, for him! The audacity!"

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

They look like the Mongols. Thank God, the Babylonians and the Aryans killed them

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

This is exactly the reaction of Donald Trump today. The point being that Trump never did anything for anyone but himself. It is called narcissism.

[@lorefox201]

some people just don't appreciate the grind 😔

[@anasty_arisaka754]

There were receipts even BC!

[@kellikelli4413]

NARCESSISM has always been a problem of bloodline royalty - elected officials too. They make the worst leaders...

[@manassurya2019]

Wow. To think that the Assyrians looked to civilizations more ancient than them (before the flood), the way we look at Assyrians and ancient Egyptians.

[@HistoryExplained]

Yea that’s so interesting!

[@SonofChrist77]

It’s an endless string of which we know only a shoe string’s length about. The further you go back in history, the more questions arise and the more blurred the picture becomes. But thankfully God gave humans brains so we can figure it out.

[@griffinbrewster5412]

@@SonofChrist77 God. My foot. Soon He will face a heavy attack.

[@griffinbrewster5412]

@@quantumtoaster5224 Back to streets please.

[@CrookedRosePOD]

Yup

[@randomobserver8168]

He crushed his enemies, saw them driven before him, heard the lamentations of their women, and recorded it all in stone with pride as a memorial to the eons. His empire lives on in the nightmares of an entire region, and wins the admiration of countless imitators. AND he was a man of art and literature.

[@randomobserver8168]

AND he has a more impressive account in the Hebrew Bible than that given of his grandfather.

[@HistoryExplained]

Well said!

[@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733]

@@randomobserver8168 who is he in the bible?

[@dritzzdarkwood4727]

Crom....

[@donaldmac1250]

he was a man of his time...and they were bad times in that part of the world...genocide was socially acceptable.

[@mariakelly1059]

It's all fun and games until your brother starts sending secret aid to the kingdom of elam.

[@SoloWolf1792]

TY FYI

[@rubenruben1869]

Lol

[@luna_guardee9139]

😅

[@mumtazamiri6409]

Always keep an eye on your brother... and on your kids ! That's where the danger lurks... they kill you and take all your stuff 😡

[@chodeshadar18]

I HATE when that happens!

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

Imagine filling rivers with dead bodies and wiping cities off the map and accusing other people of plotting evil

[@HistoryExplained]

Yea it’s unreal

[@shengsun5916]

That's exactly what the descendants of the Assyrians- the sharesholders of the Anglo-Saxon milittary industrial complex, are doing.

[@leonidjoseph5483]

Nothing compared to WW1 and wars after

[@wesleyharding7544]

To the winners go the spoils and the history.

[@msg5879]

Soft

[@hugosenarese9697]

Damn, ashurbanipal has no chill

[@HistoryExplained]

None at all!

[@teeny2024]

Assyrians were the bravest people that's y such a vast empire. Ashurbanipal was such a foresighted intelligent ruler. Only the learned knew the importance of preserving history for the sake posterity . Lovely documentary.

[@sali3492]

Modern Humans: Isis terrorists are so brutal! So cruel! Ashurbanipal: hold my beer

[@vikctorrkreedd6418]

Caligula: Wtf did you say?

[@laceylewis3197]

@@vikctorrkreedd6418 😂

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for watching

[@Castrate-]

extremity is standard fare for the peoples of the levant.

[@KenJackson_US]

So Ashurbanipal's library lay abandoned and unmolested from 612 BC to 1849 AD, that's 2460 years! We are indeed indebted to him.

[@HistoryExplained]

We are. Thanks for sharing :)

[@Scriptorsilentum]

if only we still had alexandria and the libraries of india before the moslems...

[@someguythatlookslikeme8306]

36,000 tablets! There must be a lot that hasn't been translated.

[@stoneworshipper2599]

How come Islamists did not destroy the Books and Tablets it has never happened

[@amit4Bihar]

Imagine a great King named James Campbell Smith is found in future and future people deny that he had any connections with England or English culture or Christianity.. That is how Hindus feel today. Ashur bani pal is a clearly Sanskrit name but today's historians Deny it

[@monadsingleton9324]

*The Assyrians were so hated by their vassals and neighbors that they united the entire Middle East against them in the first Grand Coalition in human history.*

[@HistoryExplained]

That sounds so good Monad! I wish I put that in the video 😅

[@monadsingleton9324]

@@HistoryExplained Here is an excellent quote: "The Assyrians ruled by terror, they created a legacy of hatred, they ravaged the Near East, and they gave nothing in return, not their language nor their culture, not peace, only a kind of terrorized security..." This level of sustained imperialism was possible because the Assyrians created the world's first standing national army of professional, career soldiers.

[@TheObserversTV]

@علي ياسر Nebuchadnezzar II never made such commands, the Neo Babylonians used Assyrian centers to further their imperial ambitions, they never destroyed the Assyrian people

[@elsascridon7256]

Yes,they exaggerated the semitic level of cruelty ,semites being the creators of all evil ancient emipres and civilizations full of cruelty and sadistic behaviour But these assyrians were the epithom of semitic and human cruelty.

[@messianic_scam]

because they were cruel monstrs attacked everybody

[@animatr0nic]

The fact that he clearly found a great pleasure in cruelty, makes his scholarly endeavors even more amazing

[@HistoryExplained]

I totally agree

[@mirzaghalib8659]

I dunno if this is true.... How do they relate to one another?

[@jamesbowman7963]

This was true of other despots as well Nero comes to mind...

[@jade5202]

in the modern day, that makes him a chuuni edgelord that read too much guro

[@Trismegistus95]

@@mirzaghalib8659 it means he wasn’t single minded to cruelty for cruelties sake, he was rational. Hence, a more complex ruler

[@SDNate760]

“Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall. For who has not felt your endless cruelty?”

[@HistoryExplained]

Nice quote

[@gutar5675]

That's definitely saying something

[@HistoryExplained]

Yea. Thanks for watching!

[@h.l.asolomonov7674]

Says alot in fact

[@KorpsePaintKlown]

It says something about you if your traitor brother was like, “Should I let my family member capture me and see what happens? Nahh I’ll play it safe and just light myself on fire.”

[@HistoryExplained]

Haha yea it does

[@Bledi838]

His Library worths more than all the Treasures of Planet Earth!

[@ThisIsThePlanet]

Absolutely great video! And I love the map! This channel is the definition of Quality > Quantity

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you for your support!

[@wesleyharding7544]

Winner owns the History.

[@TimRoseOfficial]

Always amazing old friend!!! Thanks for making some of the best vids on KZbin!! :D

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you Tim! I’m glad to see that you’re still around!

[@kaloarepo288]

Also known as Sardanapalus -details of his death occur in the works of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and as such inspired a poem by Byron.,a cantata by Berlioz and a famous 1827 painting by Delacroix which shows all his concubines being killed so they could accompany him to the after world.

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you for sharing Kalo!

[@mrlefty1276]

He was NOT "also known as Sardanapalus." That's just what the later Greek historians called him. In fact his real name in ancient Assyrian is pronounced "ASHUR BANU APPAL," which means "ASHUR (the god) has created an heir."

[@kaloarepo288]

@@mrlefty1276 I'm talking about what later people in the west called him obviously -if you were to quibble at that then most names from ancient history are wrong as they were largely filtered through Greek eyes later -most names of Egyptian identities,gods,pharaohs,place names etc have Greek names as does a lot of middle eastern ancient nomenclature -e.g.Koreish(or something like that)not Cyrus!

[@mrlefty1276]

@@kaloarepo288 lol that only applies with some names. At no point outside of the Greek speaking communities was he ever known as "Sardanapalus". Outside of the Assyrian community he was always known by his abbreviated, Hebraic name- Ashurbanipal. Also, many names of ancient kings, queens and legendary figures of antiquity do not necessarily have hellenized names as you claim. Many have Hebraic forms of their names for example : King Sargon, King Esarhaddon, King Sennacherib, King Ashurbanipal, etc

[@kaloarepo288]

@@mrlefty1276 The western world has received a lot of the names from the ancient Middle Eastern world via Greek historians and writers.The exceptions are those figures that are mentioned in the bible but even many of them have hellenized names like Cyrus-these could be from the Septuagint Greek translation.Of course more recent discoveries preserve the more authentic names and the names of many have been changed away from Greek style names like pharaohs-Cheops is back to Khufu,Sesostris etc but a lot of Egyptology and Assyriology maintains the hellenized names -e.g."Egypt" the word itself,Nubia and Mesopotamia,Assyria,Babylonia,Phoenicia -these are all hellenized and latinized names like it or not!In western high culture -art,poetry and music "Sardanapalus" has always been used except for more recent writings when his "real"name has been restored

[@andreascovano7742]

I love how his face seems to be smirking or shows anger at the same time

[@HistoryExplained]

I agree! The artist is so talented!

[@andreascovano7742]

@@HistoryExplained Kudos to him!

[@albusdumbledore219]

That shows his wickedness

[@qweqwe1324]

Almost to 100k, great video as always, keep it up dude.

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks Bruno! I really appreciate it

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Wow what a ruthless king he was but also a king of knowledge as well would like to see his library in the British Museum some time

[@HistoryExplained]

So would I!

[@concernedhomosapien9807]

Shouldn't the people where he once ruled get first dibs on that? Haven't you guys stolen enough from other people/nations? Fuckin parasites

[@user-ng4cw1bu8k]

Ashurbanipal does not honor you, but you dream of becoming like him, so you stole his traces, and if he existed, he would have made you slaves in Great Assyria, like the pharaohs and the Jews.

[@concernedhomosapien9807]

I guess u know him personally then? When did you guys meet ? Also if he existed today, he would be dead broke in Syria somewhere scavenging or pumping gas in europe for minimum wage.

[@user-ng4cw1bu8k]

@@concernedhomosapien9807 First, he is from Nineveh, and Nineveh is an Iraqi, an Iraqi, not a Syrian. Second, if he was present, he would not have made Islam come a meter close to Iraq to become in this state the third, and how did you know that he wanted to see his effects in Britain, knowing that Britain did not exist at that time, just a land, no civilization, no history, no culture To rule, no laws, his ignorant people chase animals, unlike Iraq during his reign Fourth, he does not honor you, as he remains an Assyrian and remains loyal to Nineveh Fifth: Let us leave this talk a little and tell me why the Great United Kingdom, as you call it, of course, a coward that cannot fulfill its promises, why did it not fulfill its promise with Iraq that they will expel the Ottomans With us and they go out. Why did they betray Ukraine and make it a Russian conservative? You are just cowards. Weapons you had, and now the weapon is in Russia. Ashurbanipal does not have the honor of a cowardly country like Britain.

[@Pharaonist]

Magnificent!! Keep the great work up 💖👍

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for your support Mag!

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As always one the best videos explaining history and also being entertaining. Keep it up!

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Thanks very much!

[@saul6060]

Great video👍

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Thank you Saul!

[@nmbileg]

man, this really demonstrates how fatal a civil war can be to any ruling nations. imagine losing it all simply due to fighting of 2 siblings..

[@ALIKN1-1]

Elam never deserved its fate 😢🇮🇶🇸🇾 .... glory to Ur-Dak 🇮🇶🇸🇾🇵🇸🇯🇴🇱🇧

[@HistoryExplained]

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​@Nurul Haque Aryans are strong

[@KickYourHeadOff]

Proud to be Assyrian 💪

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Thank you Dal!

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So great to see another video! Thank you, excellent as always. And the artwork.. It's so vivid...

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Thanks a lot!

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Thank you so much for this great Video. I am assyrian and always glad to see other being interested in our history

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Happy to hear that an Assyrian enjoyed my video :)

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Khaya Ashour 👍🥇

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@@HistoryExplained I'm sure there's plenty of us Assyrians who enjoyed this one. Great video man, love the quality!

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@@descendedofrigvedicclans2216 small ethnic group of Iran

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Amazing History content mate!!

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This is great!

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I love how these videos are made ❤

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I appreciate that!

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I most certainly agree

[@Ishi79]

The European people are in Middle East today, continuing with stealing others land.. This time they are using fairytale history and fake archeology to steal others land.

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This channel is real great. It has a lot of details information about the characters of the historical figures. I guess the research on it is tremendous, to be able to bring us all these informations. Congratulation, young man!

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I really appreciate it! Thank you Marin!

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reallly

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Yes!

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Thanks for watching!

[@jessladyscientist]

I really love this channel. Keep it up! You're doing a great job!

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you

[@lonelyshepherd8839]

his library is the biggest library about 65000 tablets found in Ninawa

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for sharing

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ur doing fantastic job bro, keep up the good work!

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you :)

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Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@HistoryExplained]

Happy to hear!

[@peterpuleo2904]

Some of his cruelty is not mentioned in this video. He impaled or flayed alive many of his enemies also.

[@leonidjoseph5483]

Same as middle ages

[@HistoryExplained]

I wish I mentioned that

[@infallibleblue]

Awful.

[@captainhoratiobungleiii7147]

There were pictures of it though

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💗💗💗💗

[@theGlobalSphere]

Here to visit the past and the rich history it conceals. Thanks for unearthing these precious treasures!

[@HistoryExplained]

Glad you found it informative. Thank you for watching and commenting Hosea!

[@robbabcock_]

Great video!

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks Rob!

[@RamagsKitchen]

An evocative and researched narrative!

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you very much Rama!

[@Zanoroun]

>cruelest assyrian king "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down!?!"

[@HistoryExplained]

Hehe

[@hirannes2217]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for watching

[@isam_ii502]

This is so good, your channel is one of the best when It comes to documenting Kings and other people of note.

[@HistoryExplained]

I appreciate that!

[@medalaeeladlani5683]

Great content 👍. This channel deserves millions of viewers.

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you so much!

[@sali3492]

Ashurbanipal the headcutter😂 I would run away if i met him

[@user-to8ki3dv6x]

I can think of another much more prominent head cutter who also started a religon, and is adored by hundreds of millions of people today.

[@sali3492]

@@user-to8ki3dv6x they lost their heads after breaking the Medinah Covenant. A treason that was punishable by death

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for sharing

[@mohammedarafatlone]

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[@hanaashaba1263]

Thanks for sharing the video 😘

[@HistoryExplained]

You’re welcome :)

[@michaelj2536]

Wonderfully explained. Thank you for the history lesson that enriches all of us

[@infinity8288]

His name in sanskrit literally means Bani Pal of the demon clan

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you Michael!

[@ianbrewster8934]

Love your channel.....such amazing content

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you Ian!

[@adamdaniels605]

Great Video! Ashurbanipal sounds like a Smart, but Dangerous Man! Anyways, I guess the next video will be for Nebuchadnezzar II?

[@elmajraz6019]

Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Darius, Alexander

[@baidon3613]

Would be great, but I hope he refrains from using religious texts as "resources". in this video he put "judea" in the map. Something that historians and archeologs agree that didn't really exist but in Torah. So I hope he stats neutral and unbiased

[@HistoryExplained]

Yes Nebuchadnezzar either next or right after. Thanks for your interest!

[@yourhighness6457]

@@baidon3613 cringe Atheist moment!

[@elmajraz6019]

@@baidon3613 it does, but you're searching it in the wrong time. - David Rohl

[@AdamAdam-fh7ln]

Thank you, professionally done and detail. Will you make a video about the great Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I?

[@edwardlevin6915]

I am profoundly sad that my brother the assyriologist died over 30 years ago to discuss this video with him.

[@naiduvga1612]

The leader of the Asuras who were considered very vile and ridiculously hostile to all others are still considered demonic in hindu scripts. and so were told that they were annihilated by the gods and their personas.

[@republicshallriseagain419]

Hindus were just jealous

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for sharing

[@mainakdeb8322]

The resemblance is intriguing... Asuras in India.. Ahuras in Iran.. Assyrians further west

[@fluffydrunkpanda729]

lol try again. they were not annihilated at all. assyrians still exist to this day. if you read the old testament, God had many chances to annihilate Assyria, yet instead blessed it as the work of his hands. i’m not about to allow a pagan call my people demonic lol. that is rich. don’t hindus worship kali, a violent demon? PS there are many hindu assyrians in kerala, and we have several assyrian churches which perform services in ancient aramaic in india

[@mainakdeb8322]

@@fluffydrunkpanda729 kali is no violent demon. I have no idea about assyrian in present day si wont comment. Please dont comment on on ideas u hav we not grasped adequat ly.

[@freyasslain2203]

This guy was one of the most out of control -brutal kings in history. He was a king who would have made Hitler blush. But he was a scholar.

[@jmalko9152]

Great documentary, thank you!

[@HistoryExplained]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@anubakarrconteh2463]

History is life thanks for the video✊✊✊

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you for watching!

[@adaniodebaz7305]

I’m going to name my son Ashur and I’m proud of it ! Great video

[@HistoryExplained]

Awesome name! There was an Assyrian character named Ashur on the Starz show called Spartacus. I always really liked the name

[@alberoraha863]

Ashour , this is the right way of spelling the name . An Assyrian past over 🌹

[@tatjanakosirjankovic9176]

how come, I only found this channel today? great job!

[@hoskinmage]

Thank you so much I enjoy ancient history and I'm almost ancient history myself,58, keep up your videos there are people that has tryed to change the past but we're better off learning from it instead of destroying it. I hope you do some on sumerian history it's good reading.

[@HistoryExplained]

I appreciate that and thank you for the suggestion :)

[@linda.m.s72]

Ancient you are not. Your mind is vibrant and still thirsting to know. I’ll bet you are a wise person. Knowing history helps us understand the present, anticipate the future. Hearing people bang on about now, without knowing what came before is tiresome and sometimes scary. Cheers (51, call myself a crazy old witch but young at heart. A lot of questions I have about today have been answered by learning about before) best wishes to you x♥️

[@hoskinmage]

@Linda Saunders , thank you so much for uplifting I really needed it today. I wish I was smart like you said but in truth my mind is going I keep forgetting things the doctor a aid I had scardious stage 4 and my home palitive care nurse said I haven to long left she says 6mo.to a year I hope she is wrong so we will see and thank you once again for lifting an old man's memories. Thank you so much

[@linda.m.s72]

@hoskinmage i hope you have good care and good people around you. I am thinking of you. Your reply was a sad one but your replying at all was lovely and I will remember it and keep it close. It has made quite an impact on me and the way I think. Your earnestness is a sign of a beautiful soul. Love to you always xx♥️

[@darrylerren8185]

Getting closer to the modern day i see

[@HistoryExplained]

I’ll be in the 21st century before you know it 😅

[@shengsun5916]

The Assyrian Germans killed their semitic jewish brother and pretended to be them by the group known as ashkenazi, otherwise known as the zionists who are rebuilding their once befallen Babylon. Remember the song, by the rivers of babylon? How they wept? when they remembered Zion.

[@shengsun5916]

@@darrylerren8185 Look, to deal with problem is to find out the cause and eradicate it step by step; thus, it is an important step to understand that the Germans are the descendants of Assyrians, to verify such statement, find and read John Michell's work - eccentric lives and peculiar notions. By carrying on the worship of Chaos, the Germans continued their war-like Assyrian ancestors wrecked havoc with their Bavarian illuminati agenda under the stolen identity of Judaism otherwise known as Zionism.

[@darrylerren8185]

@@HistoryExplained Hey i think you should rename this video to 'The last great king of assyria.'

[@gemfyre3444]

He really put the “pal” in Ashurbanipal

[@scottenosh4548]

Excellent video. This helped fill in some gaps for me.

[@StopFear]

Some insane maniac kills people in mass scale and today he is still remembered as some kind of “great ancient ruler” instead of brutal mass murderer.

[@Ovadyah12]

Well hitler and his nazi kill millions of people and people still talking about him today

[@HistoryExplained]

It’s interesting how we view ancient figures through a different lens

[@micahistory]

Wow I had already heard of the Assyrians' brutality but this guy took it to a whole other level. Thank god it didn't last for long

[@vagabondo879]

@علي ياسر Assyrians are not annihilated

[@HistoryExplained]

He really did! Thanks so much watching Mica!

[@micahistory]

@@HistoryExplained you're welcome

[@MNN1991]

@علي ياسر you clearly don’t know your history because: 1. It was nabopollassar that beat the Assyrians not Nebuchadnezzar. 2. Nestorian isn’t an ethnicity it’s what people in Europe called the church of the east and some other churches in the area who didn’t follow Greek and Roman Christianity. It’s a religious sect just like Catholicism or orthodoxy. Saying someone is ethnically Nestorian is like saying someone is ethnically Catholic. 3. The Assyrians were not all wiped out. Many survived under various empires and had autonomy in some provinces and some times even independent kingdoms who were vassals. Examples are the province of Athura of the Achaemenid empire , Greek province of Syria ( which is a corruption of Assyria), kingdoms like Adiabene under Parthian rule, Roman province of assyria and Asoristan under the sasanians. Some cities like Assur and arbela were even fully rebuilt during the Achaemenid era and flourished under the Parthian era. People there also kept worshiping ancient Assyrian gods even centuries after Christianity was born. It was only around the 1300 ad that Assur was fully destroyed and never inhabited again. The people fled further north to ten mountains to avoid being massacred by the timurids. 4. The Brits and the west had nothing to do with the name of modern Assyrians if anything they divided them further by calling catholic Assyrians Chaldeans when they split from the church of the east centuries ago. That just shows how they really didn’t know much of anything about the modern Assyrians.

[@annemurphy9339]

@@MNN1991 That was a very interesting & informative read. Thank you for posting.

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

Thank you so much for assembling this precious summary about my favorite king - of my preferred empire - of antiquity: Aššurbanipal (Ashurbanipal), the ruler of the most powerful, cruel, and (yet) cultivated realm on Earth during the Eighth Century BCE! The Assyrians represent, for me, an intellectual dilemma, for despite their unrelenting, abominable deeds, I am unable to follow suit with some other cultivated individuals, who share my enormous admiration for Ancient Mesopotamian history and its magnificent cultures, but nonetheless display unrestrained, antagonistic sentiments towards Assyria. Those who condemn the brutal historical legacy of the Neo-Assyrian empire (911-612/09 BCE) should be reminded of the fundamental necessity of appraising the acts of our archaic ancestors within the context of the bloodthirsty environment where they existed. A quick glance at our equally heinous Contemporary History (from 1945 to the present) suffices to demonstrate that Putin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and particularly the monstrous Cambodian Pol Pot (ruled 1975 - 1979), were equally (or even more) ruthless than Ashurbanipal or any other members of the Sargonic Dynasty. Quite frankly, the main distinction between these historical groups lies in the modern despots' avoidance of "bragging" about their cruel behavior; actually, instead of gloating, our contemporary dictators re-write historical events to fit their underlying ideological and/or geopolitical aspirations... Just watch CNN, BBC, or Deutsche Welle this week, for their broadcasts are filled with incredible Russian fabrications!

[@messianic_scam]

no ,there was no excuse for crimes against humanity they crushed the bones of their enemies's babies they did it with the hebrews the fresco of hebrew man the sword over his head forcing him to crush the bone of his own baby or they will do it to his other kids it's written in the fresco they were monsters and god punished them

[@TheObserversTV]

@علي ياسر Evidence of economic and security stability was established across the middle east because of the Assyrian empire, the Assyrian provinces turned against the Assyrian rule because of tax exemptions and internal strife, not because of "brutality", which the Assyrians did not commit against its provinces.

[@TheObserversTV]

@علي ياسر The Assyrians only tortured nobles and rebellious leaders, not regular civilizans, torture methods was rare in Assyria

[@carbonturk7200]

@@messianic_scam Crushing Human bones...? Well...For the ordinary John Doe of Silicon Age, being crushed to make Cement or Geo Polymer was the FATE...! When Silicons die, they Petrify, turn to stone...! Only the Elites were saved to be adored in museums as masterful pieces of Sculpture or Art in another Age such as ours the CARBON AGE...! Current Human History is only 3598 years...just short of 3600 yearly Nibiru (Not real) cataclysm on Earth...! Current Humans are CARBONS...because...this is the Age of CARBON...All life is Carbon...! Previously...it was not the case...! Ashurbanipal knew or understood this from the texts he read... Giants / Nephilim / Anunnaki were SILICONS...Silicon Man of SILICON AGE...All life was Silicon...! There was more...LEADs / FLEROVIUMs / TINs / GERMANIUMs... Human Life did not matter for Ashurbanipal, HE KNEW...the Elemental DIFFERENCE...! Elemental Parts of All Ancient Scripture is taken out before presenting it to the public (As in this video) therefore; Most of the stuff sounds like a mish mash of who's done what, where, when to whom...?

[@messianic_scam]

@@elsascridon7256 how do you even compare hebrews who were persecuted minorty among other nations to monsters assyrians or romans... ?! bni israel never killed kids and civilians even if they attacked others, every nation in some point in history attacked other nation but cause of their abrahamic laws they had boundarie kids families civilians were excluded they were first humans who gave animals rights when people used to eat them alive and make the poor animal suffers for days they made laws concern animals right ; don't kill the animal before his mother , don't let it suffers sharp your knife if it suffers it's forbidden to be eaten as punishment for not having mercy on the animal, don't cover its mouth while use it for plowing so it can eat from earth ,don't cook the meat in its mother's milk this is where the Jews came up with not mixing milk with meat hundreds of merciful laws the jews still apply to it they even give prayer to the animal before killing it nobody at that time thought about giving animals rights as hebrews did, they loved animals they where soft hearts what are you talking about

[@Soap_bubbles591]

Great video as always 👍

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you :)

[@Soap_bubbles591]

@@HistoryExplained you're welcome 🙋‍♀️

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Excellent presentation 👏👏👏

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks very much!

[@Boooooooooo541]

Look at 11:35 where he says "I Took My Pleasure in reading stones inscribed before the flood" which is another example of many civilizations describing an ancient apocalypse of devastating floods. Civilization is waay older than people think.

[@giga-storia]

Interesting point.

[@CrookedRosePOD]

Blessed be Assyria the work of my hands Isaiah 19:25

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for sharing

[@basilios8732]

Amen 🙏🏽☦️

[@isartoraplatz]

😮Cities Fields Plantations Wow great information ℹ️

[@user-gd3xy2vl1s]

The releif showing Ashurbanipal dining with the head of the defeated king in the tree always makes me smile. Yes I am one sick puppy :-)

[@orejotus]

great story learn a lot today

[@HistoryExplained]

Glad to hear!

[@oneelvictor2968]

THIS is why I'm ASSYRIAN and proud !

[@28pbtkh23]

Very entertaining video; also informative and educational. Must watch the others in the series.

[@liviodangelo1764]

4:08 quote over elam

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for watching

[@glr_creations]

New to your channel, I love all of it! Hello from Trinidad!

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you! Happy to hear that! Hello from NYC!

[@hannahpocock4152]

Hey I am Trinidadian too!!

[@JXiong-zo8ig]

PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS!!!

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for your interest!

[@pwcrabb5766]

Such an excellent presentation

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you very much

[@reiseimperadores]

Very good, thanks you

[@1911Earthling]

Excellent work. The churning empires of the Iron Age .

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks very much!

[@blackbette07]

Just subscribed. You are good at telling history.

[@HistoryExplained]

I appreciate that 😊

[@andrewmacdonald8076]

Fascinating, thanks🥝🇳🇿😎

[@genghiskhan6809]

Holy fuck, this guy was a goddamn gigachad. He deserves to be more famous.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. Ashurbanipal also built the first zoo on his palace grounds. The zoo had stone inscriptions carved in Assyrian and fragments survive in museums.

[@HistoryExplained]

I wish I mentioned this. Thank you for sharing!

[@robertschlesinger1342]

@@HistoryExplained Thank you for your comment.

[@coreylouviere4466]

Actually your thinking of Ashur-bel-kala, whos reign was 1074-1056 BCE, which was during the bronze age collapse 400 years prior, so while his people suffered through armenian and other nomad raids, drought, and famine, Ashur-bel-kala decides to make a zoo.

[@coreylouviere4466]

You're

[@b.yb.y6996]

God bless you all my Assyrian

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for watching!

[@Nwihsphysio]

This video is full of knowledge Thankyou Sir

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you :)

[@christianchatel8387]

Wow. Well done. I didn't know anything about this part of history. Thanks.

[@HistoryExplained]

Thank you Christian :)

[@lindsaymcpherson4744]

I have read that some of Ashurbanipal's warriors who took part in the slicing, dicing and torture of captured enemies ,had episodes of PTSD ,and would be kept woken ,haunted by the screams of their victims as there being skinned alive !

[@HistoryExplained]

Very interesting

[@rigajykra3159]

Sometimes I yearn for the days of old where the earth was barely inhabited, with vast swathes of untouched land, where humanity was so young. Then I read your comment and remember how brutal it was back then and glad I’m in modern day. Lol.

[@AliAhmad-ys3rd]

Can you make a video about the life of Utnapishtim, the hero of the legend of the great flood in Mesopotamia Thank you for your efforts in documenting history

[@HistoryExplained]

Thanks for the suggestion Ali!

[@DipakBose-ge1hm]

Asur Bani Pal: His name is in Sanskrit. Asurs are considered to be from India as written in the Rig Veda.

[@srt4874]

ashur is older than india

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

@@srt4874 How can it be older than India? It is written in the Rig Veda that both Asurs and Aryans were created by Brahman. Aryans got divided into two groups. Asurs went out of India towards the Middle East. They are the Asurs, Hittaites, etc.

[@gruntsffs1]

Excellent!!! New subscriber 👍🏻

[@HistoryExplained]

I appreciate it! 😀