I am heavily read on this subject, and have multiple shelves on it as well. These videos are pretty darn good for anybody starting from scratch. Nice job.

Excellent overview of the main earliest cities of Sumer and their deities, well for beginners like me to memorize.

These are so helpful!!! We use them for ancient history homeschool. You are our current history professor as we learn about mesopotamia :)

The Sumerian civilizations fascinate me. So ancient yet still amazingly advanced.

You have achieved something many KZfaqrs would be a bit envious of. Your content in extremely rewatchable, now we just need to get you in front of more eyes.

Mesopotamia's history is generally quite confusing imho, but your videos manage to explain major topics in a concise and very interesting manner.

Man... For your next entry in the mesopotamian saga, you should DEFINITIVELY talk about "The exaltation of Inanna", written by the great En priestess "En-hedu-ana". And you should talk about her too. Cause she is a pretty fascinating figure. 💁

Great presentation ! As always. I’m so fascinated with ancient history. I saw to come across the Sumerians and Babylon and many others in the Bible . I always was fascinated what life was like .

My favourite video so far, thank you.

Something that sets this channel apart. In EVERY image there is a description of date, name, museum, etc. That way we can fact check every claim and source. This channel is very profesional.

Love your videos. Some of the best researched stuff I've watched and I've watched them all. That BCE stuff drives a little crazy. Historians participating in revisionism in real time is sad! But keep up the good work, I've subscribed and will be watching..

Great as always! You do keep a steady stream of great quality episodes!

Mercy dude, all your stuff is great. Thanks!

This is fantastic video, enjoyed every second of it, you deserve more followers, and yes my favorite city is city of UR. Just one notice you forgot to mention city of Larsa

I know I'm late. But I love Mesopotamian history and I'm binging this Playlist. It should be mentioned, though, that the Ziggurat of Ur has been partially refurbished or reconstructed numerous times by numerous people, the most recent of which, surprisingly, was Sadaam Hussein, who had the lower levels and the staircase rebuilt. Because of that, we still have a beautiful, accurate piece of original Mesopotamian architecture. I still want to visit it one day.

I love the very informative work you’re presenting, thank you. I’ve subscribed and looking forward to future presentations on ancient Sumer.

Your videos are really good and I hope you keep getting more and more subscribers! One suggestion though - the volume is not constant across your videos and sometimes changes even within a single video. It is not difficult to normalize the sound volume via sound editing software and it would make it a lot more comfortable to watch.

Thanks for all your hard work in making these videos!

Very informative and enjoyable. Excellent video, looking forward to the rest.

Awesome Great highlights!

Cy, your videos are staggering. It’s obviously a labour of love.

Now i can have a nice day, thanks

Very good information

Great videos. Couple suggestions though. I would like more info on lifestyle stuff, like how the regular people lived, their economy, their culture, more than religious and war info. Also I would like to see the dates displayed more, to keep it more clear.

Quite great video. Lagash being composed of three surprised me. I'm wondering, though; I've read Urukug of the Sealanders might have been Lagash. How plausible is that?

While I adore all of your videos, allow me to make a quick observation: when it displayed Eridu, it correctly indicated the god Enki (Sumerian), who in Akkadian is Ea. However, when you later described Enlil at Nippur, you also provided the term "Ea" (which, again, pertains to Enki). I believe Enlil in Akkadian was just "ELIL." Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú) He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion and is identified by some scholars with IA in Canaanite religion. Enlil, later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.

Really enjoyed the video. Hope to see more. However, If I'm not mistaken, I think Abraham, father of the Jewish nation was also connected to Ur, perhaps born there.

Great video, love the coverage of our most up to date information of Predynastic and Dynastic times. A neat Facebook page about Predynastic Egypt is "time shadow history" strongly recommend it for anyone who likes this beyond ancient stuff

You should do one on Shuruppak home to ziusudra!

im addicted to this channel

Enki in eridu was is the oldest sculpture we’ve discovered?? Do we not count the structures at govleki tepe, which are almost twice as old?

Sumer is the land that was called later (2000 BC). The name of the country of Babylon. It is the lands of Mesopotamia, the twin, Tigris and Euphrates. The Greeks called these lands (Mesopotamia), a word that means Mesopotamia

Thank you for these great videos about my civilisation (MESOPOTAMIA) , i hope you visit Iraq some day and see the Iraq museum in Baghdad it is amazing , please if you can do a video about the great queen of assirya ( Shamorammat) but in real storry not in the alegentry tell of greek writers .. thanks alot

From what archaeologists have found in that area, I believe the ziggurat in Uridu was the Tower of Babel in Genesis, and that Sargon the Great of Sumer was called Nimrod in the Bible, the great-grandson of Noah. (Noah....Ham....Cush....Nimrod)

It is an ancient Kurdish civilization in southern Mesopotamia whose history is known from the fragments of clay tablets recorded in cuneiform writing. And the name Sumer appeared in the year 3000 BC. But the beginning of the Sumerians was in the year 6000 BC. be the kurd

I'm pretty sure the city in the beginning is modeled after Babylon and not Uruk or Eridu ;)

This is where Egypt got all their ideas from.

Hi, I love your videos. I never miss an episode. I love history so your videos help. But you failed to mention that Abraham, the patriarch of the Jewish people, a man very vital in 3 of the worlds biggest religions is originally from the city of Ur.

Wish we knew more

Enki rules:).., my next pet has a big chance of having the name Enki;)

Is the cuneiform script a "morse code" for several languages? If so, then wasn't it an invention by the scribes of a singles dictator who meant to unify the cities under one linguistic "umbrella?"

Abraham was from Ur. You should have mentioned him.

Hahay! Did you label the South Sea for me?

What years (approx) would Abram of the Old Testament lived in Ur?

Larsa not mentioned

And until it was invaded by the Semitic King Sargon I (2335), who is in Akkadian Sharru-kinum BC. - 2279 BC. The meaning of his name is the firm or honest king (a Kurdish word meaning head, chief, ruler or king) and he established a new capital, which he called Agade, in the far north of Sumer. And his days were the strongest and richest city in the world at the time. The Semitic invaders merged with the Sumerian Kurds in northern Sumer and fused to form the Akkad people. And their country became called the country of Sumer and Akkad. Akkadian rule lasted about a century

There are many gods but only one Most High God and he sent his beloved Son as a perfect sacrifice for whole world. Please believe his gospel he’s coming again. To them only belong all the praise and honor. Shalom

Enlil is Akkadian Illil

Isin, Sippar & Eshnuna eventually? Sorry if im annoying, I'm binging your channel, you don't have to reply man.

Enki is annunoki

It is mean that people from Mesopotamia migrated to Asia?

Ur means city in Old Turkic

Enki and his brother enlil are the god that is in the Bible. You ever wonder why sometimes god was forgiving then full of vengeance next? They were giving commands behind each other's backs.

In Sumerians, 600 words were found in Turkish. In addition, the main place of Sumerians is today's Turkmenistan region. and the biggest proof is the presence of mountain goat symbols and bones. because mountain goats were not grown in Mesopotamia, where the Sumerians lived. In addition, the Sumerians were a geography where Turkish tribes dominated, but other nations also lived.

The original people of Assyria were not Semitic. Before 4000 BC, Southern Babylon was the original home of the Sumerians from India and Northern Babylon originally came from central Asia. The modern name Mesopotamia came from the original Madhya Vedi, according to the Historians History of the World (Vol 1 and 2, 1902). One of the most famous Kings of Babylon was Asur Bani Pal, a pure Sanskrit name. Both Hittite and Mitranis used to speak the Indo-European language. Their gods were Vedic gods. HR Hall, curator of the British Museum wrote (Hall, 1939), “The ethnic type of the Sumerians so strongly marked in their statues and relief was as different from those of the races which surround them as was their language from those of the Semites; they were decidedly Indian in type. The face type of the average Indian of today is no doubt much the same as that of his race ancestors thousands of years ago. And it is by no means improbable that the Sumerians were an Indian race. It was in the Indian home, perhaps the Indus valley; we suppose for them, that their culture developed. There their writings may have invented and progressed from purely pictorial to simplified and abbreviated from which afterward in Babylonia took on its peculiar cuneiform appearance owing to its being written with a square-ended stylus on soft-clay. There is little doubt that India must have been one of the earliest centers of human civilization and it seems natural to suppose that the strange un-Semitic people who came from the East to civilize the West were of Indian origin, especially when we see with our eyes how very Indian the Sumerians were in type”. There was a linguistic and ethnic resemblance between the Sumerians and the Dravidians, people from South India. Both Rig Veda and Mahabharata mentioned the Deva-Asura war, which lasted 32 years in which Devas, the Aryans of North India, driven other tribes. In both Harappa and Babylon, an unknown script was discovered, demonstrating a close connection between the Indus valley and Babylon. Woolley in Ur found a similar seal with a very early cuneiform inscription (Woolley, 1929). Indus culture is older than Sumerian and Egyptian culture (Hall, 1939, 1928). References: Hall, H. R., 1939, A Season’s Work at Ur, Al-Ubaid, Abu Shahrain (Eridu) and Elsewhere: Being An Unofficial Account of the British Museum Archaeological Mission to Babylonia, London: Methuen Hall, H.R., 1928, The Discoveries at Ur and seniority of Sumerian Civilization, Antiquity, 2, 5, pp 56- 98; Williams, H.S., 1902, Historians History of the World, Edinburgh: Morrison & Gibbs Woolley, C., 1929, Ur of the Chaldees, London: Ernest Benn ( This is quoted from our forthcoming book, Ethics, Morality and Business, to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan.

why do they look so greedy with hands clasped like mister burns all the time

I am from Iraq, from the city of Nasiriyah. Ur, the capital of the Sumerians. Iraq contains enormous monuments and is the cradle of civilizations. Unfortunately, no one is interested in her. Nobody cares about the antiquities department in Iraq. You know that the antiquities discovered in Iraq are only 10/100. If you excavated, there would have been a great change and a look at the ancient Iraqi civilization. With you is one of the archeology students in Nasiriyah, Abbas Rahman. Ur, the city of the Prophet of God, Ibrahim, pbuh. Thanks, my dear

of course gilgamesh is real , he was in fate stay night , so he must be real kkkkk , anime fans Will understand

I built the city of ur

There was more Gods and Goddesses than there was people. lol

You gotta know the ziggurat of Ur was rebuilt by Saddam around its melted core

Sumerian belong to china ancient time .

Sumeria = Where Judaism came from! 👍👍