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I am reveling in my architecture era.
Special thanks to our discord community member and Levantine Archaeology extraordinaire Jacob Khan for his assistance on the script, helping me find a few key details I missed and setting me straight where my draft had some mis-characterizations and errors. Any remaining error in the video are mine. Again, thank you Jacob!
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âGreat Ziggurat of Urâ from âAncient Art - 30 Masterpieces of the Ancient Worldâ by Diana K. McDonald, âUr III Households, Accounts, and Zigguratsâ from âAncient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilizationâ by Amanda H. Podany
âUrâ by Marc Van De Mieroop from âCities that Shaped the Ancient Worldâ edited by John Julius Norwich â âBabylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilizationâ by Paul Kriwaczek
The White Temple and Ziggurat of Ur by SmartHistory smarthistory.org/white-temple-and-ziggurat-uruk/
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
what I've learned from this channel is that humans, no matter where we are, like stacking dirt to make things tall
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Fun fact about the "only priests allowed" aspect. The dolls shown at 1:02 were found in groups in the temple areas, and are believed to be effigies of (probably rich) citizens, for the purpose of having a representation of that person in the presence of the divine.
Personally, I like to think the way it usually went was:
Citizen: "Could you put this figure in the temple so I can be in divine presence?"
Priest: "Sure, for 100 Mina."
Citizen pays. Priest takes the figure and just unceremoniously throws it in a corner in the temple with the others.
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I remember back in high school we had to make a tangible object for one of our history classes and a friend of mine chose to make a ziggurat. Of course, he made it hollow and so one of us immediately seized it and put it on his head. Thus was born the "ziggurhat".
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The fact we even know about things this long ago is truly terrifying in a way, but more terrifying is how much came before this
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Legit psyched for more ancient Mesopotamia content.
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"No Randos on the big bricky trapezoid" made me laugh so hard! No other channel blends education and entertainment as well as you guys. You rock!
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There's something deeply beautiful about the persistence of human complexity. You'd think that our distant past would be home only to the primitive forms of what we have today, but instead we just find people, who are just as intelligent and artistic and with just as developed cultures as today- and the study of history and anthropology allows us to piece together how they lived, and what world they created for themselves. There's nothing that gives me more faith in our species than to see reconstructions of the Ziggurat of Ur or the Gardens of Babylon or ancient Palmyra and to see beauty in the grand monuments, sure, but also in the mundane features- the streetcorners and greenery, the things residents of those places would actually interact with on a daily basis. We're really no different from them, and our descendents will be little different than us- just with new cultures and art to interact with and appreciate. That gives me hope.
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I think a voice in the sky told them "we must build more ziggurats!"
Edit: as pointed out below:
You must construct additional ziggurats
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Ziggurats are truly AMAZING constructions, especially if we consider that most of them are extremely ancient. Very few cinema productions, like the classic 1927 movie "Metropolis" and its 2001 anime version, capture the divine beauty of these architectural monstrosities.
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shoutout to Enheduanna, one of the high-priestesses of Ur, who may have been the first poet in recorded history:)
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Looking forward to more Mesopotamian content. Everyone knows about the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations so it's nice to hear about Mesopotamia too.
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I always figured that the story of the Tower of Babel was based on the construction of a ziggurat. Turns out that I was basically right! Edit: However, the writers of that particular story were commenting on a ziggurat being constructed in Babylon, not the ancient Sumerian one talked about here.
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This channel is single-handedly responsible for the fact I'm taking Classical Civillisations for A-Level and I don't know how to feel about that
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If you're getting into talking about Uruk, you have to talk about the most memed-about person of the time period. The quite literal Ur-example of the personality archetype that eventually spawned the Discworld's Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler: Ea-nasir.
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Sumerians were the first peoples that we know of who had a patron deity for each of their independent city states, and each had its own temple ziggurat where his or hers statue was housed at the top, and it was believed that the deity itself was thus housed in that very same place.
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Huh... I remember seeing some modern office buildings under construction and I had the oddest feeling I'd seen them somewhere. Now I know why: the new buildings are 21st century glass and steel ziggurats! The new buildings feature the sloped structure, the external staircase, and the vegetation from the mesopotamian ziggurats
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âNo randos on the brick pyramidâ is such an iconic quote
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i think that the most incredible thing about the past isnât how little we know about these old kingdoms at the start of civilization, but how much we actually do know, because itâs crazy we know anything about stuff happening 5,000 years ago
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"Is this true? Well, it is Herodotus."
Me: so the odds are 40% possible, 40% an exaggeration (accidental or otherwise) and 20% made the fuck up.
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@AsiniusNaso
9 months ago
To put in perspective how old these places are, woolly mammoths still existed on isolated islands around the time Ur was being built
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