Nimrud: Ishtar Temple, 2023, part 1
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- I worked primarily in the Ishtar Temple at Nimrud this past excavation season (Spring 2023) and filmed a walkthrough at the end of each week. I combined weeks 2 and 3 into this intro tour and saved the final week for part 2.
There were two temples dedicated to Ishtar at Nimrud. One was to Ishtar Kidmuri, the other to Ishtar Sharrat Niphi. The Kidmuri temple has gone almost completely unexcavated but is not easily accessed at the moment. The Sharrat Niphi temple, however, had been partially excavated in the 1850s and in 2001/2002. ISIS also dug into it in 2016, leaving a large pit. We needed to assess that damage and then find out what we could learn by expanding the pit in a scientific way.
In fact, this area was a key connection point between the Ishtar and Ninurta temples. It looks like ISIS attacked this very spot because they had heard about the find of a potential gateway here in 2001/2002 by Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Hussein. He revealed part of the gateway but didn't complete the excavation of it. ISIS probably thought there would be valuable material in the gate since it was protected by stone bulls. They dug in with machinery and badly damaged the stone paving. Who knows if they found any portable antiquities, but they did miss the second gate. We were able to document their damage and learn much about the original Assyrian building.
00:00 intro
00:21 Isthar court east
02:07 Ishtar cella
03:01 reconstructed walls
04:24 importance of history
05:14 gate chamber ISIS pit
06:12 monumental gate
06:38 digging the gate
07:48 wrap-up and outro 
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Fascinating as always. Thank you Dr. Hafford for continuing to share these things with us.
I´m so glad ppl like you dedicate to publish youtube videos, is a delight every time!
Wonderful. yes, wonderful.
I can't handle seeing the damage by isis as if the destruction by the Medes and Babylonians wasn't enough 😢
nothing new under the sun, unfortunately
My heart breaks every time one of these sites is destroyed. I remember weeping over this...
i certainly hope everything goes well there and lots can be salvaged.
Im excited to see the finished project
I find your videos fascinating!
Thank you Dr. Our past is too important not to try to understand. Thank you for taking us with you.
Thank you for sharing these insights. They are incredibly interesting peeks at your work.
Breaks my heart that a group of people would want to destroy such priceless things. Locations like this all over Iraq are very precious to all of humanity’s past & proof of our existence & intelligence over the decades
It must be hard to see all that damage first hand.
I used to believe that history was unimportant but i was so wrong on that. The past holds many stories which havent been told, and they should be. There is a lot to learn as well, it shows us potential dangers we always face.
Many thanks for showing us these things, there is true beauty in understanding the past, or even just the attempt to do so.
It shocks me to know that these sites, which have lain (relatively) unmolested for so long can be the focus of such ire and denial. It's excellent that there is sufficient stability now for there to be proper excavation, preservation, and interpretation.
There is solid physical evidence there to show us how people who nearly everyone by now must class as their ancestors lived and worshiped, and how a society existed. To think that this knowledge could have been lost and destroyed by deliberate action is very sad indeed.
That channel deserves more visibility. It's incredible stuff right here.
Outstanding content
Glad something survives man's insanity.
Neat.
Cheers!
Thank you Dr. Hartford for another amazing update on the work going on in Nimrud.
If I may ask, what is your opinion on the location of Akkad, the capital of the Akkadian empire? How come we haven’t found it? Are there any other famous cities from history (not Atlantis and myths of the sort) that we haven’t found?
I don't really know where Akkad (also written Agade) is, but I think it was probably somewhere near Baghdad. Perhaps it's even buried beneath Baghdad.
I'm not certain about other famous lost cities. Most that are famous are entirely or largely mythical, like El Dorado or Atlantis, as you mention.
Besides Akkad, there are cities that we have clear mentions of in cuneiform records that we still haven't found, like Irisagrig. These aren't famous in the sense that most people would have heard of them, but I'd like to see Guabba found. Cuneiform texts suggest it might have been a port city in Mesopotamia but with some population from the Indus civilization. It was heavily involved in the weaving industry in the Ur III period.
They blew up some things and took a bulldozer to her ziggarat. Ishtar wins again. They are defeated and Ishtar's holy of holies stands. They must have failed to read her epitaphs 😊
Man that site has been so fucked with, it's gotta make your job so much more difficult.
I get why they destroy false gods and idols of gods , but theres another fact those that those who destroy history are aslo bound to repeat it.
Shades of the (Taliban?) destroying colossal statues of Buddha. So, so sad.