We should be grateful to the Elamite king. Although he stole the stele, he at least left us the information on where he stole it and whose stele it was. Modern artefact looters should learn from him... or rather leave ancient artefacts to archaeologists.

Two kings inscribing their triumphal victory messages on the same rock, a thousand years apart!

I have learned a bit about this artifact during my art history course and wanted to add something! The composition, while still relatively simple, is something rarely found in Mesopotamian art. Unlike most art from the era, it's not linear(like the Standard of Ur, for example) but more organic. The fallen warriors are some of the oldest depictions of "dynamic" poses! Fantastic video, thanks a lot!

As a kurd I’m from Mesopotamia and zagros mountain branch of (gutian) and medes Empire, that’s why always proud to be a kurds. Har bzhi kurdistan lands rich culture and history of kurds ❤️🌞💚.

The legacy and power in the names of Sargon and Naram-sin endured so long. Ty for the vid Mr. Cyrus!

Great video! Elam was a rival to Mesopotamian kingdoms for two millenia. Akkadians,Sumerians,Amorite Babylonians,Kassites and Assyrians. They had their own culture and it is a shame their texts are still poorly understood. For the Elamite kingdom who stole the artifact it was probably a moment of glory. He was "avenging" Elam defeat to the Akkadians a thousand years before (like the Sassanid king Khosrow II trying to avenge Persian defeat to Macedonians ,but now fighting the Rhomaion/greeks). Naram-Sin is a peculiar figure.He was a mighty conqueror (he even surpassed his grandfather) but was also described as having a god complex Mesopotamia literature. I hope someday Agade/Akkad will be find.Imagine the treasures in texts (from religion to chronicles) locked in the ruins.

It's just unbelievable such a thicc empire already existed 4200 years ago. Those are like Middle-earth time scales.

The inscription by Shutruk-Nahhunte was a major plot point in the movie «The Emperors Club», great scene!

Great video as always! Will we see more videos that revolve around a piece of art like this one?

Thank you for another great video. Mesopotamian history is so fascinating.

Never stop making videos man they are so well researched

Excellent video, Cy! What a fascinating era & region in antiquity.

Thanks Cy 👍

Great video Cy! Fascinating bit of history,

I enjoy listening to your videos again after I watch them. Your flawless pronunciations of words and names is beautiful. As an English only speaker ( and a dyslexic) it excites me to finally know how to pronounce the names of these important historical places and people. Thanks for your beautifully researched & presented content .

Super interesting! Thanks for the video

Another great one, Cy!

Great Job!

Thanks a lot for another great video!

I wished I had found your channel earlier. Well, better late than never. 👍🏻

Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

Love the video!

I love Ancient History and want to thank you for helping me learn more than any book ever did.

I remember this from Dan Carlin’s HH mention of it. Really cool to see pic of it

Outstanding piece which added to my understanding of why culture carries back ancient artifacts from a conquest of a ancient foe even though that foe hasn't existed for a 1000 years.

Always a good day when Cy posts a vid!!

Great video!!

Just when I was wondering ….. Where’s Cy?? Yay 👏🤗💕

Really cool!

Great video. Naram-Sin’s stele reminds me of the fun time I had in Art History class.

So informative! Great job making it interesting without using clickbait or over-romancing the details!

I'm late cy, but good thing Mesopotamia has been around awhile; great episode thanks!

thanks , more please

Naramsin is depicted as priest or king political avatar to Gods like Shamash or Enlil or Ea or Ishtar.

Thank you.

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Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be appreciated. You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on KZfaq. But brother I am waiting for an promised video on Skanderbeg when it will come? I have a curiosity also can I ask your name? And Where are you from?

Cy your a bad ass. Your parents must be proud...... thanx for all you do.

Love this channel so badly ❤️🏹🛡⚔️ Brilliant channel 👍

Awesome! Love this artifact. Personally, I wish more was known about Elam and their civilization. It's always felt like they get a bit sidelined

A thousand years' grudge. Wow! Not counting the Iraq-Iran War...

الامبراطورية الاكدية بقيادة نرام سين 🇮🇶🔥🥱

I recommend The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient by Henri Frankfort to anyone interested in this art!

More on middle east and south asia bronze age

Got COVID-19 ( work related health field/ care worker just got back to KZfaq after recovery) to see this was awesome! Great work CY! As usual!

I will have to check old my Louvre basement photos to see if I have a photo of this. Thanks

Awesome video as always. Please make a series focusing on similar artefacts as the topic. Looking forward.

Thanks for another amazing video! It always takes me by surprise the amount of time that comprised antiquity. The fact that for the elamites this stele was 1000 years old is so crazy... It is really good that they specified so well who took the stele. In some thousands of years people will wonder how it ended up in paris hahaha

Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and Akkad Civilizations of Iraq 🇮🇶😊😌💖❤

@History with cy, strange question maybe. But do you happen to have any resources regarding commoner's names for ancient Egypt? Not interested in royalty or Ptolemaic names, of course. I would be most appreciative.

There is an other stele from Naramsin He show there himself drinking on a garden. And in the tree you can see the heads of 12 Kurdish kings on Zagros mountain.

The deed is still active in the eyes of the owner.

@2:04 I was under the impression that while the Akkadian Empire was technically the first empire that most historians still consider Neo-Assyria the first "True Empire".

Music suggestion; "The Mesopotamians" by They migth be Giants

@7:45 - If that is indeed Gilgamesh, he was obviously NOT a good dog owner...

Vicky:Naram sin in hell Se5 farma:yes! Its stupid king😁

The time scales involved are so incredibly long thousand years and hundreds of generations between the time of Naramsin and the time of Shutruk. The first civilizations came and went millennia before Europe clawed out of the stone age.

I must make my own stele i don't think this apple will last 3000 years.

Ghost of Tsushima style game set in Akkadian empire when?

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Did he think Gilgamesh was one of his ancestors?

I think maybe gilgemish is also a real king who portrayed himself like a god in 2003 his tomb was found and he didn't some inscriptions and location indicates that the tomb was suppose to be Gilgamesh's but he was just 5:7 tall not a giant 😂

Thanks for another great video, Mesopotamia has always been of great interest to me. I would love if you could do a complete or as much as be on the biblical heroes who inhabited those part's. No I'm not a religious nut, but so many of the old testament stories are based around there. Knowledge is power it would be great to know what is true and what is probably just a story.

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I from Mesopotamia

Look! Its Paul Bunyan!

Not surprising he was originally seen as a god, when he seems to have thought he was one

Kim Jong declared himself a god in North Korea. Also in the Capitol is The Apotheosis of George Washington. Just a few off top of my head but it's actually very very common.

Well done CY but you stopped short of mentioning Naram Sin as the possible biblical Nimrod, do you have at least a personal opinion on the matter?

7:05 it funny he chose cue the great better to all god amanung men drove a car a 3 guy

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I’m curious, what is the current Iranian govt’s view of Elam and it’s ancient history? Is it celebrated and acknowledged, or shunned because it’s not Islamic? Or is it a point of pride because it carries the Iran vs Iraq narrative?

Relatively few? What??? I think there’s been an incredible amount of men who have gotten so puffed up and megalomaniacal that they definitely breach that line of promoting oneself as a god versus just a mere leader or king. If anything I think that standard is what gave birth to the three predominant religions from that same region in the world right now and the very way the Abrahamic books were written. I wonder if that standard of styling oneself as a god is what led to tribes vying for more power to create a deity out of their leaders - Jesus and Mohammed.

7:45 Im pretty sure that is gilgamesh also. He is holding a lion in one hand and i guess a lion in the other hand. That is classic gilgamesh. That motif has been found in harrappan digs too. That makes me hope that the Sumerians had some Harrappan connection. Im open to other possibilities of course.

Are you Kurdish by any chance?

Art is cyclical... Ya know? Art started as a simple, stylised, form of expression used to rapresent reality while not necessarely being realistic. Sometimes it was used to rapresent feelings or ideas such as POWER and STRENGHT. Eventually art "evolved" and became increasingly more realistic... And then it became stylised again... And then realistic again... And then stylised again... And then realistic again... And then stylised again... And then realistic again... And again and again and again. So, does art really evolve? I don't think so... art transcends time and is not bound to evolution or eras like tecnology. Art can be enjoyed by everyone regardless of the era they lived in. Ancient art will remain beautiful and inspire future artists for thousands of years. It is not inferior to modern art because , despite the stylistical evolutions of the various art forms, it still influences it directly.

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A black civilization. Just show the original artifacts...

Why can't you just show him as he was cy??? A black man