The Elamites - The Early History of Elam and its People (Part 1)

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  @adad-nerari4117 · 4 years ago

  It is not very frequent to find a documentary focused on Elam land . This one is instructive, well illustrated and pleasant to follow. Thanks and congratulations for this work.

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  @ЇаннъЄархъ · 6 years ago

  Cy please do an episode about the Dunabe Valley Civilisation or the Thracians. Thanks in advance 🙏

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  @Amadeu.Macedo · 4 years ago

  As usual, this video represents yet another outstanding documentary, bravo!  Just a minor remark, you mentioned "year zero," which does not exist (after 1 BCE came 1 CE/AD). Cheers!

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  @josekelly3565 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I'm thankful as a American that I can turn to your history layout and quickly understand. You do these so well I've listened many times over to reeducate myself. 🙏

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  @jimorr820 · 6 years ago

  Perhaps an update on the Ebla culture?

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  @michaellewis7959 · 7 years ago

  Cy, love this one. Have not really read much on Elam so I found this a great introduction to Elam. Great flow, and congrats on passing over a thousand subs!

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  @huntermad5668 · 7 years ago

  Strange that all sort of people set up shop in Sumerian but the neighbors prefered to just raid and maybe demand tribute from the city states

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  @doctorbrad · 4 years ago

  I wish I could like the video more than 1 time. Keep the good work up Cy.

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  @zanny7819 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Hello, I&apos;ve been going through your videos and I have a question.<br><br>Some context for it:<br>My father&apos;s side comes from the Isfahan province&apos;s village (more a city now, but not at the time he was born) of dastgerd (dastgerd-e khyar (as the village is famous in Isfahan for it&apos;s cucumbers)) (during the Pahlavi era it was apparently discovered that this was at one point an elamite village). This village is directly next to the fire temple of Isfahan and used to have a large field emptied out to form clay; there was apparently a decently sized hill formed of the residue from pottery making (this hill as well as field were removed by the government (the hill was removed as a body was found in it)). There apparently used to be (I don&apos;t remember this too well, as such I&apos;ll be asking my father as soon as possible) a certain rock (this rock was named, I remember it being a human name however I do not remember &nbsp;the exact name) that people would make wish and stick something (a rock if I remember correctly) on it (I am unsure as to what the entire ritual was). This rock was fairly large from descriptions I have heard; unfortunately I was unable to see this rock for myself as the Islamic Republic of Iran succeeded in demolition via dynamite using the excuse that the rock was promoting unislamic values. <br><br>The information I could find on the village both in farsi and English is fairly minimal. Would you possible know anything about it or even information regarding practices similiar to the rock one? Thank you in advance, any and all help will be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Note: to the knowledge of my father, no large archeological investigation has been done since the Pahlavi era; we could not find much about the Pahlavi era excavation of the village other than the fact that the village is from the elamite era (my father confirmed that there was no excavation). Also I believe the zayenderud pass by it.

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  @bitkower · 4 years ago

  I have a sort of complicated question to which I don&apos;t know if there is an answer. It seems kind of odd, in a way, that Elam maintained its independence from the whole Sumerian/Akkadian/Babylonian world for so long, despite being so close. I can see geographically how the Karun river that Elamite society was organized around had, at the time, its own separate mouth to the sea and how from there, its course moved up into the Zagros mountains and then southeast, in the opposite direction from Mesopotamia. <br><br>Archaeologically, we know the Sumerians and Elamites traded by sea, perhaps also by land, with the Indus Valley civilization, as we&apos;ve found artifacts from each in the other two&apos;s lands. Linguistically, we know that the languages of these three ancient civilizations have not been fully deciphered, do not seem to be related to each other, nor to any other languages, nor are they related to the Semitic languages that seems to have come in later from the back door, if you will, when the Akkadians came down following the Tigris river from the northwest. <br><br>When I look at early early human migrations out of Africa, it seems most likely that we humans followed the coasts around Arabia, Iran, and India to southeast Asia and eventually Australia and east Asia. It seems reasonable that as humans migrated around the coasts, whenever a group came to the mouth of a great river, they may have, in whole or part, decided to leave the sea coast and follow that river to see where it went, thus also slowly populating more inland areas and finding their ways to other seas and oceans and river valleys, which they could have then followed back to the sea. And it also seem likely that different groups of our species followed similar paths one after another, but perhaps separated by time, perhaps related to the Sahara pump or some other geo-climatic cycle, chose different rivers to follow. I also know there are some theories that suggest a connection between Elamite language with the modern Dravidian languages of south India, which also has at least one language isolate in Balochistan. <br><br>So, to me it begs the question if perhaps the reason Elam was able to maintain their cultural independence of their Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian neighbors for so long is perhaps they were descended from an earlier migration out of Africa than the Sumerians and for whatever reasons, instead of following the Tigris and/or Euphrates, they followed the Karun river and were thus their ancestors were already pretty well entrenched in the lands surrounding that river by the time of the Sumerian civilization rose. Do we know anything about that, if that is a possible reasonable explanation for it taking relatively so long before Elam was assimilated into the rest of Mesopotamian civilization?<br><br>A secondary question, if the Sumerians migrated into and replaced the Ubaid culture, (1) do we know when and where they came to there from and (2) is it possible there is a relationship between the Ubaid and the Elamites?

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  @blueeyes6852 · 7 years ago

  Fascinating! &nbsp;Someone called your videos, &apos;productions&apos;... I just thought that was well deserved! &nbsp;Everything from the beginning through to the end is perfect! &nbsp;Your voice, the timing, the topic, the visuals, the direction, the sound, the flow....all seamed together in a comprehensive program! &nbsp;I would have been interested in these when I was in school! &nbsp;Really great job! &nbsp;Give a bow friend! 👇👏👇🌟

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  @briantlougan810 · 6 years ago

  I know the name Elam from a mid-20th century character actor, Jack Elam. He is mostly known for Westerns. It would be interesting to see a DNA test to discover if he is descended from Elamites.

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