The Rise and Fall of the Sumerian City of Ur

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The Biblical “Ur of the Chaldees” where Abraham was supposedly born. The site near which the earliest human cultures were found. The site which held the most glorious Sumerian Dynasty in ancient history. This is the story of the city that was destined to die and be reborn every millennium or so, a city full of intrigue, magnificence, tragedy, and glory.
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[@celathianaaron6057]

I will forever be grateful to have toured the ziggurat of Ur during my deployment to iraq (camp adder 2008)

[@Ash-xi8ji]

My brother Ratan Joseph from India, who was working then at Baghdad's US military also toured Ur then and sent us pictures of ziggurat, settlements and the house of Abraham before he travelled to Canaan etc. He also sent us reeds etc from Ur.

[@aliraqi_noor]

I am from Iraq, 🇮🇶 I live near the historical city of Ur.. We want you to visit us.. The situation here is good

[@daleogborn5520]

I'm so glad to hear that there is Peace & Prosperity in your land 🔝🙏

[@aliraqi_noor]

@@daleogborn5520 Iraq underwent struggle, but now the situation is different, many tourists have been coming to us from different countries around the world. Peopl are grilled by seeing tourists from Europe and America..

[@josebulang7981]

You know our ancient people here in Mindanao are called Uranun, which i believe you agree mean People of Ur. It is said that our nation then is Sarruvassai. You have any idea what this word Sarruvassai mean in english today?

[@haten80]

This seems like a trap

[@jeicoco]

@@josebulang7981 Are you talking about the Iranun/Moro people? Iranun means 'pirate' people if I'm not mistaken.

[@user-yo8rq4lx5w]

أور السومرية الأثرية جميلة جدا وجذابة وهادئة وبإستطاعة السياح زيارتها في أي وقت وهدوء وأمان واستقرار في جنوب العراق

[@skkk352]

I love ancient history... And you took the time and effort to put english CC.. For that I will subscribe and share your videos. Cheers 🍻🍻

[@jeyakumarmasilamani7680]

I am from India 👍🏼 Tamil Nadu 👍🏼 UR or Ooru is name for village in Tamil language 👍🏼 Nammur is our village 👍🏼 sin is short form of Singham that's 🦁 Lion in Tamil 👍🏼 Sumaria is ancient Dravidian name and civilization in Tamil Nadu 👍🏼

[@JohnSmith-rk6jy]

👍

[@BrentPoynter]

Wonderful video. Thanks so much!!!

[@bashiral8052]

Wonderful

[@Whurlpuul]

"Okay, what are we doing to name our city" "Mister indecisive, what do you think?" "Uhh"

[@user-vl7xx5sw3w]

Come and see please

[@karleemiles2988]

Key word here is region: the city was abandoned, then rebuilt near by.

[@scienceexplains302]

In Genesis 11:26-31, Abram is introduced as son of Terah, coming from Ur Kasdim (Ur of the Chaldeans). This is not just a case of using the then-current name for a territory that has changed rulers. Genesis 15:7 “quotes” Yahweh telling Abram that Yahweh brought Abram out of Ur Kasdim. “The Chaldeans” didn’t exist until at least the 10th C BCE... soon after the time of David, and they didn’t take Ur until the 7th C BCE. It is difficult to be born in a region that didn’t exist until centuries after you supposedly lived. But if the authors of Nehemiah and Genesis could have known about the Chaldeans and thought that Ur had been under the Chaldeans before the Israelites existed. Abram/Abraham was most likely an eponymous invention.

[@ALIKN1-1]

A city that I was born in 🥲🇮🇶

[@KaiserFranzJosefI]

You were born in a city abandoned two and a half thousand years ago?

[@ALIKN1-1]

@@KaiserFranzJosefI who said everyone left 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@glendabarton45barton48]

@@KaiserFranzJosefI Still people living in the region what do you think?

[@KaiserFranzJosefI]

@@glendabarton45barton48 The site of Ur is in the middle of the desert with only the foundation of the Ziggurat remaining along with some small dwellings. No one has lived there for thousands of years

[@MastemaJack]

Yeah even in the video it said it had been completely abandoned.

[@skaetur1]

So not that long ago! What kept us from hitting the industrial revolution in the Middle Ages?!

[@RedPill4Lifer]

There wasn't ignorance back then like today, and also there wasn't even a plan to control the people there antill, the sumarians got stuck on earth and got greedy and sneaky. Slaves were just created when the sumarians got to earth.

[@RedPill4Lifer]

The industrial revolution was our down fall anyways, why do u think we need one ? I'm no slave, I'm not codependent either. I don't need a slave master.

[@markcarter6298]

Total misinformation . There are 6 ancient cities named UR which means city or town in Akkadian . 1 Ur the ancient city in the Video 2 UR uk a city that is nearby. 3 Ur garit an ancient City in Syria on the Mediterranean Sea. 4 Ur aritu the ancient city in Turkey. Today it is called Van. This is where Noah lived . The Ararat mountains go right down to the shoreline of lake Van the 4th largest lake in the world which experienced tremendous Glacial flooding 7500 years ago . 5 Jerusalem The original name was Uru Salam 8000 years ago. Salam today in Arabic means welcome. So the name translates to Welcome to Ur . 6 Ur fa in Turkey . This is the actual birthplace of Abraham . There is a cave in Urfa where Abraham was born . It's called the Cave of the Patriarchs . The artifacts here are 11, 000 years old . 5000 years older than the Ur in Iraq . This is the Garden of Eden from the first chapter of the Bible. This is also the first city on earth. In Genesis the first chapter of the Bible it talks about GOING UP TO HIGH PLACES TO PRAY . Abraham's cave is in the valley by the Euphrates and if you walk three miles up a hill you come to Gobleki Tepe which is also the oldest monastery in the world. It is also 11,000 years old.. So Radio carbon dating proves that this was the original Ur.

[@davidbenner2289]

No Wifi.

[@stunnerofagunner]

Good video but I do not trust any historian who uses BCE or CE opposed to BC & AD

[@jkairi4]

They are showing the Sumerians as white or Caucasian. However, the people in that lived in that region during that period, the Ubaid period, we black. They weren't even what think of as Arab today back then. The whites, for the most part, were still confined to the caves and hillsides of Europe or what is known as the Caucasus mountains. The founders of civilization Sumer, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, were black. Later, the whites emerged from the Caucasus, then into Eurasian Steppes and then unto civilization of Sumer, mixing in with the indigenous inhabitants already there.

[@VikingMuayThai]

🤣

[@nickislander4915]

They weren't black. They were dark skinned people. Just like native southeast/South Asia and Oceania. What's with Africans and claiming everything to be black (African origin) in the last 5 millennia. Y'all too much sometimes tbh

[@VikingMuayThai]

@@nickislander4915 they don’t even know about graecopithecus. They still think Out of Africa is true.

[@nemavenus9156]

@@nickislander4915 They we're not White they were Arabs

[@gboogie360]

Yall dont know shit.. black meaning dark skinned ppl.. u know, the ppl that birthed all races...

[@moodist1er]

Abraham? Lol gtfo

[@markwolfshohl6562]

Great name for a city.... NOT

[@gregorfurtenbach6893]

Opinion of a child

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

@Spolierman *your

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Yeah because “Wolfshohl” sounds fantastic.

[@jaredsmith112]

Ur is definitely hard to say and hear for a modern English speaker. It sounds like a hesitation sound. In the Lament of Ur, however, they called it Uril. I think the second syllable gives it a better ring