As an Iraqi i thank you for your efforts. Babylon holds a special place in all our hearts. It pains us like nothing else to see our history and ancient sites fade away because of mismanagement and war. I had the pleasure of visiting the site today and i was pleased to see that there were some obvious improvements although there is still much to be done to preserve this treasure.
I'm european and I'm fascinated by Babylon I would like to build a 3D visit very realistic of this city. But the ultimate dream is obviously rebuild in real world the ancient site. Your culture is priceless Iraqis friends !
Babylon is one of the most ancient and grand cities.. Its ruins should be preserved and renovated. I hope the people of Iraq will attain peace and prosperity recovering from the present turmoil .
sohaib USA is no problem It’s Iran who’s destroying Iraq,and killing it’s people, Iraq riddled with the Iranian militias. Once Iraq clear of the he Iranian control, hopefully things will be better
Lets_WrapItUp I know, but it’s the brutalities of the Iranian militias who caused violence and human rights violations, Iran has done damage to Iraq since the Mongol . Iran killed hundreds of thousands of Sunnis, the prison is full of innocent men held without a fair trial. After they torture them and very close to death they open them up and rip their body organs, . Where is human rights ⁉️
You mean the war of aggression waged by war criminals in America.Its my country believe me contrary to popular belief we are not that free and we are ruled by a barbarous group of Warlords.Cold blooded murderers.
I am from Dominican Republic, I met some Iraqi people for the first time while living in Holland, our Caribbean-Middle east culture immediately connected and to this day I think Iraqis are one of the most respectful and nicest people around. I hope your country finds peace, you deserve it,
@DOJA FOX I can tell you're researching, but there will some mixup sometimes. Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians are the same, came at different times, we're talking thousands of years, named on their cities. You're correct, we're not Arabs, in the bible we're Manley mentioned as Assyrians, I am an Assyrian, we speak our own language (Aramaic), at the same time we're not black my friend, nothing against black, I respect them, that region is very hot and the sun is very strong, most of us get tan very quick, and some don't, so we do look brown very true, but we're considered white, I know some people have an allergic reaction against white. most of the Iraqis are not Arabs, actually they are part of us, but they lost their identity, they call themselves Arabs now a days. As the indigenous people of Iraq, we have been marginalized, massacred and displaced, now we live all over the world.
Men STFU with your Caribbean/Middle East culture, y’all Dominicans are notorious for being self hating. DR and middle east have absolute nothing in common,
I'm from Philippines.I just read the bible today from the old testament,& I read the story about babylon & decided to find out the real history of it & i was so amazed..it is exactly how it describe in the bible.really GOD is so amazing!!!
i still remember our school trip to Babylon in the seventies, it was breathtaking experience for me to the degree that i applied the names of "Cuneiform" and Babylon City to my companies that are still operating over there in Iraq.
I got to visit the ruins over a dozen times while serving in Army in Iraq. I feel very lucky and grateful to have experienced Babylon. Sending love and positive energy to the people of Iraq and the middle east. Im sorry for what has happend to your beautiful country.
@@alex1701waller That is in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Also, the poppy fields were guard to stop terrorist groups from harvesting them and turning them into Heroin to be sold to support their terrorist group, stupid ass.
CrooK Babylonic Traditions Easter and the Egg the following comes from Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought by James Bonwick: “Eggs were hung up in the Egyptian temples. [German scholar Christian Charles Josias von] Bunsen calls attention to the mundane egg, the emblem of generative life, proceeding from the mouth of the great god of Egypt. The mystic egg of Babylon, hatching the Venus Ishtar, fell from heaven to the Euphrates. Dyed eggs were sacred Easter offerings in Egypt, as they are still in China and Europe. Easter, or spring, was the season of birth, terrestrial and celestial.” The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Gardening was respected in the Babylonian Empire. Under Nebuchadnezzar, the perfume and herbal industries boomed. The Babylonians were knowledgeable in plants and were skilled at farming and irrigation. Astrology From Babylon, astrology was exported to Egypt, Greece, India, China, Rome and Byzantium, even making inroads for a time in Iran and the Islamic world. The name of astrology’s birthplace, Babylon, means “confusion” in Hebrew, and the city of Babylon is used throughout Scripture as a symbol of a world mired in confusion and separated from the true God. (See Revelation 14:8 and the whole of chapter 18.) Many traditions of the modern world can be traced back to this ancient metropolis. Christmas, New Year’s, Lent, Easter, Modern day Christianity... the list goes on Do your own research!
Recently a temple been discovered in Iraq What makes me sad that I can’t see the code of hamorabi Because it is in France and Iraqis are most times rejected in France
The Iraqis are the ones who discovered the writing and reading and discovered the wheel and discovered the flight and discovered medicine and discovered the lens of the camera and a lot of no discoveries, but the most important that the whole world owes to the Iraqis because they are the first to discover reading and writing
We Iranians adopted alot of it, because zareostrian religion was based on ancient messopotamian gods and religions ,therefor our Iranian traditions is very similar to those of ancient babylon.
@Sarah Asaad Babylon is not a place Babylon mean wicked .any body that kill babyes any body that go around killing runing people off thay land is Babylon its not a place. i dont overstan how thay can write a book name the holy bibly and put in a lot of bull shit and think we will take and hold on to it . thanks to the Most high we can think (Blessed)
I would love to visit Saudi Arabia.. But even without a war it's almost impossible to visit as a tourist. I'm dreaming of visiting Jabl Al Laws :D Peace from the Netherlands!
Thank you with Love from Iraq. We grew up loving our country Iraq . I am grateful to you for your efforts to inform and educate. This gives us hope. Thank you
As an Iraqi, our school trip was to Babylon! As an Iraqi Christian, the book of Daniel took place there, Genesis 11, south of it, the book of Ezekiel. Also, the start of humanity started there with Adam and Eve. Rich history! To the north, the Assyrians Empire, and the book of Jonah took place.
No it didn't, Adam (AS) was sent down in somewhere in India some Scholars say and Eve was sent down in Mekka and there is an authentic Hadith about it.
I have read this manga called "The Richest Man in Babylon." It was in Japanese so I wasn't able to read. However, just visualizing the ancient city of Babylon sounds heavenly. I also read The Map of Salt and Stars from Jennifer Joukhadar and I can see how the antiquity of the city and bablyon at the time perfectly ties to the mediteranian life.
This was an excellent mini doc on this subject. I teach University History. And have been to Babylon many times but years ago And yes even though it was mud brick. It must have been quite something. The core base of most things in ancient world were stone or mud brick but the grand and gorgeous cosmetic beauty is gone mostly. So people think jut because they only see brick this means there was no beauty but that is a bad way of deducing the cosmetic architecture one cannot see today. Those entrance gates are a fine example and one can only imagine the murals, gardens palaces and grandness that is gone today. Like Roman palaces only brick is left there but we know they were quite grand. And for this to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world one can easily imagine what this could have looked like. And how grand and gorgeous in reality it really was. Thank you for sharing this. Loved it.
How great it is to see such an ancient historical place, it should be protected at all costs. May God bless and save Iraq from all of the troubles, greeting from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 to all Iraqi brothers and sisters. PEACE BE UPON YOU ALL 😊🙌
Let’s all hope for peace in the Middle East one of the most ancient cultures in the world.My first destination I want to travel is Iran and Iraq I love so much the great history and heritage of the great Persian empire both country’s have.I am Greek and as you know we were great enemy’s for a long time but I really see my culture so much same with the Middle East.I really love your country and I truly hope to travel one day it’s something I would really enjoy and love to do.
"even though mud brick is a very humble material..." Sorry? My whole country is built of mud-brick. It's actually a beautiful traditional material that lasts throughout ages. And because it's made of local resources and has no negative impact on the environment it's still a highly appreciated material today. Besides, a very interesting video, thanks.
I've never seen raised brick before.. and now that I have, I'm surprised it isn't more common. Lisa's commentary at the end was great. I don't spare many thoughts for Babylon, but she made it sound like the most intriguing blend of past and present. I wouldn't mind finding out.
I feel that rather than leaving monuments in a fast deteriorating condition, we should be rebuilding them as best we know how to do. It is a wonderful legacy to leave for future generations. Piles of rubble are "authentic" but, let's face it, they are not going to attract visitors who supply the rebuilding funds and enrich the local economy and present the monuments with the power and grandeur they originally had.
I am a Pakistani and Iam coming to Iraq next month inshaallah. I look forward to visiting this great city. can someone guide me how to reach there like on the site?
Sometimes i try to imagine what the world would have look like if we didnt develop technology, electricity etc... The majesty of cities would have been astonishing
If iraqi together with experts manage to rebuild this amazing city, and also manage to make it safe for tourist, i would surely come. This city i always dreamed of visit, go back in time and see this great wonder of a city.
@@lets_wrapitup no. They are called mesopotamians because they live in that geographical area. The original people kept getting destroyed and replaced by foreigners.
No they are not. They were wiped out and it's quite frankly well known common fact. Modern Iraqi's are arabs from the arabian peninsula. Ancient Greeks and Romans have more claim over Babylon than modern Iraqi's do ffs.@@lets_wrapitup
Has there been any improvements to bringing tourism back ? I would love to see this as I love history and I am Christian. Also I served in Iraq so there is an emotional aspect to all of this also.
@@kellycraig8438 heres one thing i want to say.. Im a iraqi ex catholic... Im athiest... Your religion and words and shit aint matter.. And you'll see how the "antichrist " believement will help you... You are a complete fool for believing in religion.. Infact whats happening in my beloved iraq is due to religious fuckers... Go learn and think about it..
Please protect this structures from radical terrorists in the future. I want to see this last for another thousands, even millions of year of the next generation.
it is devastating when a single person loses their memories, e.g. to alzheimers, and i think it is devastating in an analogous way when the human race loses its history
Seriously? First civilization? first handwriting? Math, taxes, laws.. Epic of Gilgamesh? Mesopotamia's history is one of the most interesting part of human civilization.
Why Ishtar Gate is in Berlin. İt supposed to be in Iraq. There are international agreements about reserving national and historical extractions in their original places.
Mesopotamia was iraq's old name before the kingdom of irak in 1932.. Believe it or not iraq is named after uruk the oldest civilization so far found in mesopotamia... 12,000BC
Not true, but they but they were higher than these you see in the video, because you only see the upper part of the walls, the lower parts are burried under ground.
We have such a beautiful rich history such as Egypt. We are truly the cradle of Civilization if you don't get to know Babylon you will be missing a lot of fractions in history and inventions in Law, math and science.
Naveen Dhak You're not so wrong India is Older than Babylon. But you forget about many Siberians tribes: Native Americans/Austronesians/Turks/Anatolians/ Scyths Sahka have build civilisations , cities , Empire, math (older than Arabia and India) , architecture, Astronomy, philosophy, diverse chess games all of them before India. In fact Egypt , Mesopotamia and Pakistan are as old as India. But None of them are as old as The Asiatics civilisations : Siberians/Native Americans 40 000years to 20000years. Turks/Anatolians 12000years, Scyths Sahka more than 25000years they are the First indigenous people of Europe when Asia started from Europe Eurasia (and all North Africans haven't immigrate to Europe yet but only 5000years ago they did and became Caucasians), Austronesians more than 14000years inside China land, in South Taiwan/Bornéo/ actual Indo china (10000years) , in Japan/Korea (9000years) in Arabia (7000years) just saying Austronesians are The Original First Arabs first to live in Peninsula Arabia building Kingdoms and establishing trade. Austronesians in the Americas (10000years) they have already established cities, Kingdoms, trade maritime route, architectures and first humans to plant rice in high hills rice terrace desingned in Pyramid and planting rice in great plain too 13500years ago maybe more, planting rice, pyramid design, triangular architecture it's their knowledge so as the boat, navigation and trade as far as Archeologist have found. By Mesopotamia that means still the Turkics as they are the first inhabitant of Greece and Italy. the Turkic Anatolians are The people of Northern mountains of Italy and Greece caucasus and others have lived in the South valley and islands like Spartans and Corinthians. India was build by Iranians and Siberians with Austronesians influence, and later Arabs in the North Arab Berbers and South Arabs Moors (Ethiopians in Gujarat). Most of India heritages and knowledges are from The Siberians that your people call "Veydic" and of course Iranians too. The mixture of Siberians and Iranians are called Aryans. They live in Siberia and Russia along side with the Slavics and normal Siberians. Indians now are very mixed race still few Turkics and original Aryans. Pakistan was inhabited by the Turkic people too (Pakistan, Kazhakstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Uyghur, Anatolian, Afghanistan,Turkmenistan, Armenian) people are the same, all Turkics same as the Anatolians of Europe : ioans and Dorians/Spartans/Corinthians of Greece and Italy. Architecture, Math, calendar, Astronomy, Agriculture, farming, diverse architectures especially Stone massons, bricks, pillars, also pottery, ceramics, Status, wood carvings, Leather goods for boots and sandals, weaving of fabrics, making off threads, artificial jungle and lakes and islands, gardening, Spear and arrows, Gold, coins culture for money and huge head dressese, knife, dagger/swords, Jewelleries/Ornaments, tents for campings, caleche and horses , arts, paintings , all kind of strings instruments guitar, violin, etc... and drums all are the culture and knowledges of many Siberians tribes : Scyths-Austronesians/Turkics/Anatolians. Even Those Buddha statues are Siberians-Turkics shaman/culture. Part of Persia/Iran was inhabited by Turkics too during Assyrian Empire. Stone massons architectures and pillars are all siberians tribes knowledge. What they call "Indo-European language and culture and heritage" is not because it is from India, No. Indo-Europeans are The Siberians tribes who inhabited Northern of India, next to the Turks of Central Asia and All the Siberians and Anatolians whom were both first people of actual Europe/Scandinavia as where Asia started before and Anatolians of Turkey, Proto-Greek, Proto-Italic, Armenians "Asia minor" this is why your language is associated with them and the rest of the world because Siberian tribes and Anatolians went everywhere and settled those land first building civilisation, and because Siberians "Veydic people" and Iranians build your Country. Obviously the language is the same. Western Historians and Archeologist do care about knowing The Asiatics civilisation but afterwards they want to burry it deep as they conquerred and invade their civilisations and land, they rewrite history. India, Europe, Siberia, Mesopotamia and many part of the rest of the world was inhabited and discovered first by "The Siberians/Turkics-Anatolians/Austronesians" this is why their language is spoken everywhere because they were advanced and had knowledge, trade, architecture, culture and all their brothers and cousins diverse Siberians tribes are inhabiting The Americas. Austronesians went everywhere and build cities even in The Americas even Arabia, perhaps even they might have designed the Pyramid of Egypt or maybe The Anatolians. Pyramids are in China, India, South Asia, Americas, Africa and it started from the Rice culture terrace design to many Architectures to the Austronesians houses the triangle elevation shape. India is old but it is not the Oldest civilisation, but yes India is a world treasure because India still own many monuments intact despite colonisation while in many oldest places it was all destroyed by looters from war and invasions as the indigenous stood plain and fought, and stayed. I love travelling to India, especially Northern India , have been many times no interest in Buddhism though but the heritage, history, knowledge, architecture especially. India is fascinating! 😊
@@thebirds2406 why u included pak?? It is only a hardly 100 year old concept. But India from indoi was since from ancient greeks(Alexander time)which root word is sanskrit *Sindhu* . Also Pakistan was purely a hindu-Buddhist land where mahayana buddhism started.
And just as well that Museums around the world have preserved and reconstructed the Ishtar Gate now that, 7 years after this video was made, the Taliban are back in business and could well decide to blow this all up !
I'd love to, too unfortunately I'd recommend waiting.I'm not going to lie though I'm terrified that one day this won't exist, did you see what happened to Nineveh? Fuck ISIS
As an Iraqi i thank you for your efforts. Babylon holds a special place in all our hearts. It pains us like nothing else to see our history and ancient sites fade away because of mismanagement and war. I had the pleasure of visiting the site today and i was pleased to see that there were some obvious improvements although there is still much to be done to preserve this treasure.
Please be civil and remember to not feed the trolls~
Looks beautiful greeting to you from Ireland 🇮🇪
Alexander's last night on earth was there 😢
I'm european and I'm fascinated by Babylon I would like to build a 3D visit very realistic of this city. But the ultimate dream is obviously rebuild in real world the ancient site. Your culture is priceless Iraqis friends !
Merci
Babylon is one of the most ancient and grand cities.. Its ruins should be preserved and renovated. I hope the people of Iraq will attain peace and prosperity recovering from the present turmoil .
sohaib USA is no problem
It’s Iran who’s destroying Iraq,and killing it’s people, Iraq riddled with the Iranian militias. Once Iraq clear of the he Iranian control, hopefully things will be better
Lets_WrapItUp
I know, but it’s the brutalities of the Iranian militias who caused violence and human rights violations, Iran has done damage to Iraq since the Mongol .
Iran killed hundreds of thousands of Sunnis, the prison is full of innocent men held without a fair trial. After they torture them and very close to death they open them up and rip their body organs, .
Where is human rights ⁉️
God destroy babiloni for not hope in God
You mean the war of aggression waged by war criminals in America.Its my country believe me contrary to popular belief we are not that free and we are ruled by a barbarous group of Warlords.Cold blooded murderers.
Well, we murdered their president. That, and all the bullet holes will take some time to get over.
I’m Vietnamese and I wish to visit here one day. I only hope for Iraq to be at peace ❤️
Thank you lm iraq and love vietnamese
@Ibrahim Alasadi Well. How many ISIS related groups are in your state?
People dont come to iraq ..im from Baghdad and here is very dangerous country and i afraid of your life
@@markrivera4325 most of them international fighters from your filthy countries
The New Jerusalem instead. There will be everlasting peace
I am from Dominican Republic, I met some Iraqi people for the first time while living in Holland, our Caribbean-Middle east culture immediately connected and to this day I think Iraqis are one of the most respectful and nicest people around. I hope your country finds peace, you deserve it,
Your words are very nice thank you🥺🦋🧿💫
@DOJA FOX arabs are Semitic
@DOJA FOX
I can tell you're researching, but there will some mixup sometimes. Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians are the same, came at different times, we're talking thousands of years, named on their cities. You're correct, we're not Arabs, in the bible we're Manley mentioned as Assyrians, I am an Assyrian, we speak our own language (Aramaic), at the same time we're not black my friend, nothing against black, I respect them, that region is very hot and the sun is very strong, most of us get tan very quick, and some don't, so we do look brown very true, but we're considered white, I know some people have an allergic reaction against white. most of the Iraqis are not Arabs, actually they are part of us, but they lost their identity, they call themselves Arabs now a days. As the indigenous people of Iraq, we have been marginalized, massacred and displaced, now we live all over the world.
Men STFU with your Caribbean/Middle East culture, y’all Dominicans are notorious for being self hating. DR and middle east have absolute nothing in common,
I have always wanted to visit the ancient city of Babylon and check out the old monuments.
Faris Al Hili hi I am from India can I come to study agriculture is there possible to do it
Interesting ~ thank you!!
Shaun Seljestad you're more than welcome!
@@farisalhili7507 im also from irak but i live in najaf
Anish alter you’re welcomed in Iraq, bro😁😁
I'm from Philippines.I just read the bible today from the old testament,& I read the story about babylon & decided to find out the real history of it & i was so amazed..it is exactly how it describe in the bible.really GOD is so amazing!!!
Yep!
Sure is
i still remember our school trip to Babylon in the seventies, it was breathtaking experience for me to the degree that i applied the names of "Cuneiform" and Babylon City to my companies that are still operating over there in Iraq.
I got to visit the ruins over a dozen times while serving in Army in Iraq. I feel very lucky and grateful to have experienced Babylon. Sending love and positive energy to the people of Iraq and the middle east. Im sorry for what has happend to your beautiful country.
Haha USA share apology what an irony to say that to the Indians you slaughtered
I was lucky enough to visit them in 2003.
Lovely wish to see that place some day if jm lucky love the history
@@alex1701waller That is in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Also, the poppy fields were guard to stop terrorist groups from harvesting them and turning them into Heroin to be sold to support their terrorist group, stupid ass.
@@Coinz8 boot licker
When I was in Iraq I had a chance to go visit this site...I am so glad I took the opportunity.
Bring the family next time :)
Amazing! This used to be perhaps the most important civilization in the world that lasted a long long time.
It is the greatest ever and it's gone downhill ever since. It was the golden head!
It’s ancient practices are with us to this day
CrooK Babylonic Traditions
Easter and the Egg
the following comes from Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought by James Bonwick: “Eggs were hung up in the Egyptian temples. [German scholar Christian Charles Josias von] Bunsen calls attention to the mundane egg, the emblem of generative life, proceeding from the mouth of the great god of Egypt. The mystic egg of Babylon, hatching the Venus Ishtar, fell from heaven to the Euphrates. Dyed eggs were sacred Easter offerings in Egypt, as they are still in China and Europe. Easter, or spring, was the season of birth, terrestrial and celestial.”
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Gardening was respected in the Babylonian Empire. Under Nebuchadnezzar, the perfume and herbal industries boomed. The Babylonians were knowledgeable in plants and were skilled at farming and irrigation.
Astrology
From Babylon, astrology was exported to Egypt, Greece, India, China, Rome and Byzantium, even making inroads for a time in Iran and the Islamic world.
The name of astrology’s birthplace, Babylon, means “confusion” in Hebrew, and the city of Babylon is used throughout Scripture as a symbol of a world mired in confusion and separated from the true God. (See Revelation 14:8 and the whole of chapter 18.) Many traditions of the modern world can be traced back to this ancient metropolis.
Christmas, New Year’s, Lent, Easter, Modern day Christianity... the list goes on
Do your own research!
This is the city from where the civilisation started.
@@ashmashah3932 no, Sumeria is older
Iraqi culture is interesting so much hidden information is still unfound!
Babylon....the eternal city ....the great Babylon....city of my dream ...
Recently a temple been discovered in Iraq
What makes me sad that I can’t see the code of hamorabi
Because it is in France and Iraqis are most times rejected in France
The Iraqis are the ones who discovered the writing and reading and discovered the wheel and discovered the flight and discovered medicine and discovered the lens of the camera and a lot of no discoveries, but the most important that the whole world owes to the Iraqis because they are the first to discover reading and writing
We Iranians adopted alot of it, because zareostrian religion was based on ancient messopotamian gods and religions ,therefor our Iranian traditions is very similar to those of ancient babylon.
@Sarah Asaad Babylon is not a place Babylon mean wicked .any body that kill babyes any body that go around killing runing people off thay land is Babylon its not a place. i dont overstan how thay can write a book name the holy bibly and put in a lot of bull shit and think we will take and hold on to it . thanks to the Most high we can think (Blessed)
I'm a New Zealander, would love to visit this beautiful historical site❤️🙏bucket list ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes it is. Hi julee.
One of my dreams is to be able to visit Babylon, i really wish for Iraq to be at peace, so we can see its true beauty :) peace from Saudi Arabia.
Thx love from iraq💜🥺
Sending love to Iraq from jamaica. I hope to visit one day
Me also 🇺🇸
I would love to visit Saudi Arabia.. But even without a war it's almost impossible to visit as a tourist. I'm dreaming of visiting Jabl Al Laws :D Peace from the Netherlands!
Babylon has always fascinated me. What a wonderful place of beauty and power. I wonder if Babylon will be rebuilt soon.
Isaiah 13:20
Most likely never
Babylon the greatest civilization in the world Babylon hammurabi Babylon nebuchadnezzer
@@No1isWatchn you are right
It is inhabited now
This channel is so well researched and just incredible. Thank you for everything you do.
Thank you with Love from Iraq. We grew up loving our country Iraq . I am grateful to you for your efforts to inform and educate. This gives us hope. Thank you
I was born in Iraq, and remember the school trips, to Babylon very memorable.
Love to go and see it again.
Where are you now. Aren't you in Iraq?
@@a54hanna No I left Iraq many many years ago
OMG! This is a Rare Well Organised Tour of the Magnificent & Famous City of Babylon indeed! Thank You So Much for the Professional Efforts! 🕯🌷🌿🌎💖
🎶By the rivers of Babylon 🎶
Some beautiful historic spots in Iraq.. would love to take a tour around that fantastic ancient architecture.
ChazSeamus28 the Ishtar gate !!!!
I am a Taiwanese, really wish to visit there someday, in a very near future.
chgrace brown free Taiwan from the ccp
As an Iraqi, our school trip was to Babylon! As an Iraqi Christian, the book of Daniel took place there, Genesis 11, south of it, the book of Ezekiel. Also, the start of humanity started there with Adam and Eve. Rich history! To the north, the Assyrians Empire, and the book of Jonah took place.
No it didn't, Adam (AS) was sent down in somewhere in India some Scholars say and Eve was sent down in Mekka and there is an authentic Hadith about it.
@@Someone_KhabibbeatsJonesEASILY And how many history books agree with you on that?
Fascinating history of the Bible! It would be something to see!
@@annemurphy9339 yes it is amazing to think Daniel and others were there!
@@Someone_KhabibbeatsJonesEASILY dumbfck go and read valid things
I'm from Iraq , Babylon 😍🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
@Phenom69ll
Where are you from ?
im from kirkuk iraq
سودة بكصتك فضحتنة😂👍
i know how you feel
@@fatimaal-nasiri1356 what he is feeling
Congratulations babylon now a world heritage site👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👌👌👌
Why it wasn't a World Heritage site before 2019 is a mystery to me.
@@Tflexxx02 It was in the World Heritage because in 1986 it was removed from the list because of Saddam Hussein
I have read this manga called "The Richest Man in Babylon." It was in Japanese so I wasn't able to read. However, just visualizing the ancient city of Babylon sounds heavenly. I also read The Map of Salt and Stars from Jennifer Joukhadar and I can see how the antiquity of the city and bablyon at the time perfectly ties to the mediteranian life.
Omg there's actually manga of my country? that's so cool it's the last country I'd expect Japan to make something of. Thanks for letting me know!
This was an excellent mini doc on this subject. I teach University History. And have been to Babylon many times but years ago And yes even though it was mud brick. It must have been quite something. The core base of most things in ancient world were stone or mud brick but the grand and gorgeous cosmetic beauty is gone mostly. So people think jut because they only see brick this means there was no beauty but that is a bad way of deducing the cosmetic architecture one cannot see today. Those entrance gates are a fine example and one can only imagine the murals, gardens palaces and grandness that is gone today. Like Roman palaces only brick is left there but we know they were quite grand. And for this to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world one can easily imagine what this could have looked like. And how grand and gorgeous in reality it really was.
Thank you for sharing this. Loved it.
Palm trees by a river in a desert is so cool. Anywhere else in the world with this landscape?
It's not a desert it's actully a very fertile mudy land.
I like my city Babylon it's wonderful
How great it is to see such an ancient historical place, it should be protected at all costs. May God bless and save Iraq from all of the troubles, greeting from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 to all Iraqi brothers and sisters. PEACE BE UPON YOU ALL 😊🙌
I was there in 2003. I'm so glad this place is being taken care of.
It's crazy to think that one day people will look at our cities in the same way we look at these.
Doubt it
All because America the DEVIL and Iran the son of devil
Be interesting to see if our cities age as well as Babylon has, after millenia.
Ya think this world has the time left?
I'm from Babylon live in the center of the city
My father was working here before he retired
Thank you for sharing.
Good videos & i like.
Greetings from Kefamenanu, Indonesia 🙏
Let’s all hope for peace in the Middle East one of the most ancient cultures in the world.My first destination I want to travel is Iran and Iraq I love so much the great history and heritage of the great Persian empire both country’s have.I am Greek and as you know we were great enemy’s for a long time but I really see my culture so much same with the Middle East.I really love your country and I truly hope to travel one day it’s something I would really enjoy and love to do.
The Persians have nothing to do with this topic ? this is Mesopotamia and the Babylonian civilization
I am from Iraq and live in babylon my city is verry nice place 😍
MHD Tech very beautiful and amazing as a American I would love to take a vacation in Iraq 🇮🇶
Me too im from iraq from babylon my city😭🤗🤗🤗❤️
From where in babylon
You know im from 60street شارع اربعين وشارع ستين 🤗🤗
"even though mud brick is a very humble material..." Sorry? My whole country is built of mud-brick. It's actually a beautiful traditional material that lasts throughout ages. And because it's made of local resources and has no negative impact on the environment it's still a highly appreciated material today. Besides, a very interesting video, thanks.
I m from Pakistan 🇵🇰 and I really love the babylonians civilisation and history...... wish to visit this beautiful place one day 😇❤️🇮🇶
I hope you can visit Babylon someday 🤲
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Fantastic. I love this so much.
Excellent history!
I really want to see hollywood movie pictured the hanging garden comes to live..its always been on my obsession to see it since i was a child
i saw the ishtar entrance in berlin and it's just pretty. damn. awesome.... for it to be made when rome was just in it's infancy a farming village...
Thank you! Very informative.
As an Assyrian, I respect so much how they are taking care of our land and cities. very much appreciated and respect.
So you are descendants of them?
Shahzeb shabbir yes, yes i am
Such a phenomenal place, quite beautiful.
i learned so much more from this than many dramatizations copied from wikipedia that you see on CZcams. Thank You
I would like to try and go and wondered when was best to see it green and avoid sandstorms?
You want to go before June or after August to avoid the extreme heat. But it's still very hot for most people in May or September.
It will never be rebuilt.
Muito bom o vídeo, com importantes informações sobre o sítio arqueológico de Babilônia. Parabéns.
The cradle of civilisation 👑👑
I've never seen raised brick before.. and now that I have, I'm surprised it isn't more common. Lisa's commentary at the end was great. I don't spare many thoughts for Babylon, but she made it sound like the most intriguing blend of past and present. I wouldn't mind finding out.
its my dream to visit iraq someday. i want to see the Babylon, Ur, Uruk, Kufa etc
I hope you will bro
Wow this was very interesting and informative.
How do you excavate an entire structure piece?? I’m honestly curious
I am an Architect. Your channel is amazing and educational. I hit subscribe!
Thanks and welcome.
respect iraq(mesopotamia land ) from morocco
iraq have great history
I really hope Iraq can go back to what they once were before the Saddam era. Tourism would bring so much money to its economy.
Such a wonderfully concise and informative video. Thank you!
I've always Loved History😬😬😬 Ancient History🤓🤓🤓
The origin of races and languages. So much history and future prophecies awaiting here. Wish I could visit and touch its ancientness.
@HanselManCan from iraq languages started to be so different iraq was the center of the world
Reading a Book "The Richest Man in Babylon"
Too curious and excited to learn more about it😊
With LOVE from Macedonia land of Alexander The Great 😊 !
Our ancient enemies , love back 😘
I feel that rather than leaving monuments in a fast deteriorating condition, we should be rebuilding them as best we know how to do. It is a wonderful legacy to leave for future generations. Piles of rubble are "authentic" but, let's face it, they are not going to attract visitors who supply the rebuilding funds and enrich the local economy and present the monuments with the power and grandeur they originally had.
Babylon the most beautiful true province of iraq..
We will regain all our lands 🇮🇶🇸🇾🇯🇴🇵🇸🇱🇧😡
@@user-dr4qu9sv3m are you chaldean???
I am a Pakistani and Iam coming to Iraq next month inshaallah. I look forward to visiting this great city. can someone guide me how to reach there like on the site?
I hope you had a lovely trip! ♥️
.. I'm curious to know if everything went well with u , but I'm sure my ppl helped... right???
Thanks for sharing with us. It’s amazing!
Sometimes i try to imagine what the world would have look like if we didnt develop technology, electricity etc... The majesty of cities would have been astonishing
If iraqi together with experts manage to rebuild this amazing city, and also manage to make it safe for tourist, i would surely come. This city i always dreamed of visit, go back in time and see this great wonder of a city.
It's so sad the cradle of civilization has been reduced to one of its banes...
and the original inhabitants are no longer there..
@@lets_wrapitup no. They are called mesopotamians because they live in that geographical area. The original people kept getting destroyed and replaced by foreigners.
@@AsiaMinor12 according to who? The Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians didn’t magically disappear. They are still there, cultures evolve.
No they are not. They were wiped out and it's quite frankly well known common fact. Modern Iraqi's are arabs from the arabian peninsula. Ancient Greeks and Romans have more claim over Babylon than modern Iraqi's do ffs.@@lets_wrapitup
I need to visit Babylon.
im not from iraq but it looks beautiful and want to go there! giber me monument valley (game) vibes...
Has there been any improvements to bringing tourism back ? I would love to see this as I love history and I am Christian. Also I served in Iraq so there is an emotional aspect to all of this also.
There have been behind the scenes efforts to allow for the return of tourists and UNESCO recently added the city to its list of World heritage Sites.
Smarthistory that’s great news !!!! Well let’s hope it happens. Thanks for the video and response
Adducla Films you are an idiot. I did more for Iraq that you ever did for anyone or anything in your entire pathetic life
@@kellycraig8438 heres one thing i want to say.. Im a iraqi ex catholic... Im athiest... Your religion and words and shit aint matter.. And you'll see how the "antichrist " believement will help you... You are a complete fool for believing in religion.. Infact whats happening in my beloved iraq is due to religious fuckers... Go learn and think about it..
@@kellycraig8438 Babylon is a metaphor for the false religions which we are living in today js.
Great place, despite destruction during war and us bombardment
Please protect this structures from radical terrorists in the future. I want to see this last for another thousands, even millions of year of the next generation.
it is devastating when a single person loses their memories, e.g. to alzheimers, and i think it is devastating in an analogous way when the human race loses its history
I want to go.
Isn't it the same city where Alexander the Great marched into almost 2500 years ago, after defeating the Persian empire?
I never thought my culture was this intresting
Seriously? First civilization? first handwriting? Math, taxes, laws.. Epic of Gilgamesh? Mesopotamia's history is one of the most interesting part of human civilization.
Babylon was a mixed society
@@seraby7151 wait Iraq is the first country to do math and taxes?
@@seraby7151 teach me more brother
Modern Iraqi's have nothing to do with Babylon.
It is the City Where Black Magic Started 🤔
You're right...
Excellent reporting
Amazing content. Subscribed right away.
بابل اجمل مدينة واصل الحضارات
Why Ishtar Gate is in Berlin. İt supposed to be in Iraq. There are international agreements about reserving national and historical extractions in their original places.
I'm from iraq
Fuck u
Be blessed dear broth from Ethiopia❤
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Fuck u too putch
Please please do your expert doc on Gaudi s. La family sagrada!
Iraq's (Mesopotamia) antiquities sites are very underrated.
Mesopotamia was iraq's old name before the kingdom of irak in 1932..
Believe it or not iraq is named after uruk the oldest civilization so far found in mesopotamia... 12,000BC
Fascinating.
I’m interested in common life including culture of ancient Babylon but I cannot find any books on the topic. It’s so sad
Well the Bible talks about Babylon
Thank you for calling it an invasion for that is accurate
I want to know more about Babylon
Check out Digital Hammurabi on CZcams
For the time it was magnificent a marvel especially when they were still some hunters and gatherers running around the world
I heard that the walls of Babylon were 60 miles long, is that true?
It's an exageration.
@@paulheinrichdietrich9518 did u go there and see???????????????????????????????
I don't think we've found any evidence. Who knows, they could still be buried
Not true, but they but they were higher than these you see in the video, because you only see the upper part of the walls, the lower parts are burried under ground.
Fascinating!
We have such a beautiful rich history such as Egypt. We are truly the cradle of Civilization if you don't get to know Babylon you will be missing a lot of fractions in history and inventions in Law, math and science.
Naveen Dhak You're not so wrong India is Older than Babylon. But you forget about many Siberians tribes: Native Americans/Austronesians/Turks/Anatolians/ Scyths Sahka have build civilisations , cities , Empire, math (older than Arabia and India) , architecture, Astronomy, philosophy, diverse chess games all of them before India. In fact Egypt , Mesopotamia and Pakistan are as old as India. But None of them are as old as The Asiatics civilisations : Siberians/Native Americans 40 000years to 20000years. Turks/Anatolians 12000years, Scyths Sahka more than 25000years they are the First indigenous people of Europe when Asia started from Europe Eurasia (and all North Africans haven't immigrate to Europe yet but only 5000years ago they did and became Caucasians), Austronesians more than 14000years inside China land, in South Taiwan/Bornéo/ actual Indo china (10000years) , in Japan/Korea (9000years) in Arabia (7000years) just saying Austronesians are The Original First Arabs first to live in Peninsula Arabia building Kingdoms and establishing trade. Austronesians in the Americas (10000years) they have already established cities, Kingdoms, trade maritime route, architectures and first humans to plant rice in high hills rice terrace desingned in Pyramid and planting rice in great plain too 13500years ago maybe more, planting rice, pyramid design, triangular architecture it's their knowledge so as the boat, navigation and trade as far as Archeologist have found. By Mesopotamia that means still the Turkics as they are the first inhabitant of Greece and Italy. the Turkic Anatolians are The people of Northern mountains of Italy and Greece caucasus and others have lived in the South valley and islands like Spartans and Corinthians. India was build by Iranians and Siberians with Austronesians influence, and later Arabs in the North Arab Berbers and South Arabs Moors (Ethiopians in Gujarat). Most of India heritages and knowledges are from The Siberians that your people call "Veydic" and of course Iranians too. The mixture of Siberians and Iranians are called Aryans. They live in Siberia and Russia along side with the Slavics and normal Siberians. Indians now are very mixed race still few Turkics and original Aryans. Pakistan was inhabited by the Turkic people too (Pakistan, Kazhakstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Uyghur, Anatolian, Afghanistan,Turkmenistan, Armenian) people are the same, all Turkics same as the Anatolians of Europe : ioans and Dorians/Spartans/Corinthians of Greece and Italy. Architecture, Math, calendar, Astronomy, Agriculture, farming, diverse architectures especially Stone massons, bricks, pillars, also pottery, ceramics, Status, wood carvings, Leather goods for boots and sandals, weaving of fabrics, making off threads, artificial jungle and lakes and islands, gardening, Spear and arrows, Gold, coins culture for money and huge head dressese, knife, dagger/swords, Jewelleries/Ornaments, tents for campings, caleche and horses , arts, paintings , all kind of strings instruments guitar, violin, etc... and drums all are the culture and knowledges of many Siberians tribes : Scyths-Austronesians/Turkics/Anatolians. Even Those Buddha statues are Siberians-Turkics shaman/culture. Part of Persia/Iran was inhabited by Turkics too during Assyrian Empire. Stone massons architectures and pillars are all siberians tribes knowledge. What they call "Indo-European language and culture and heritage" is not because it is from India, No. Indo-Europeans are The Siberians tribes who inhabited Northern of India, next to the Turks of Central Asia and All the Siberians and Anatolians whom were both first people of actual Europe/Scandinavia as where Asia started before and Anatolians of Turkey, Proto-Greek, Proto-Italic, Armenians "Asia minor" this is why your language is associated with them and the rest of the world because Siberian tribes and Anatolians went everywhere and settled those land first building civilisation, and because Siberians "Veydic people" and Iranians build your Country. Obviously the language is the same. Western Historians and Archeologist do care about knowing The Asiatics civilisation but afterwards they want to burry it deep as they conquerred and invade their civilisations and land, they rewrite history. India, Europe, Siberia, Mesopotamia and many part of the rest of the world was inhabited and discovered first by "The Siberians/Turkics-Anatolians/Austronesians" this is why their language is spoken everywhere because they were advanced and had knowledge, trade, architecture, culture and all their brothers and cousins diverse Siberians tribes are inhabiting The Americas. Austronesians went everywhere and build cities even in The Americas even Arabia, perhaps even they might have designed the Pyramid of Egypt or maybe The Anatolians. Pyramids are in China, India, South Asia, Americas, Africa and it started from the Rice culture terrace design to many Architectures to the Austronesians houses the triangle elevation shape. India is old but it is not the Oldest civilisation, but yes India is a world treasure because India still own many monuments intact despite colonisation while in many oldest places it was all destroyed by looters from war and invasions as the indigenous stood plain and fought, and stayed. I love travelling to India, especially Northern India , have been many times no interest in Buddhism though but the heritage, history, knowledge, architecture especially. India is fascinating! 😊
@@thebirds2406 why u included pak?? It is only a hardly 100 year old concept. But India from indoi was since from ancient greeks(Alexander time)which root word is sanskrit *Sindhu* . Also Pakistan was purely a hindu-Buddhist land where mahayana buddhism started.
Babylon the Great, City of Cities, Queen of the World, how I wish I could have seen it's splendour
how are you guys so underrated?-
What a fabulous video. Thank you.
And just as well that Museums around the world have preserved and reconstructed the Ishtar Gate now that, 7 years after this video was made, the Taliban are back in business and could well decide to blow this all up !
greatest civilization I ever seen 💚💚
مدينتي العريقه.❤️. 😍العراق💚
Is it even possible to go and see the sight? How safe it is?
I’d love to see it, it is a kind of pilgrimage for all humanity I think
I'd love to, too unfortunately I'd recommend waiting.I'm not going to lie though I'm terrified that one day this won't exist, did you see what happened to Nineveh? Fuck ISIS