King of Persia first thing he did was Nick the golden statue of Bell from Babylon then the Greeks called him zero theJero bco kicked Seven Bells out and set then he got murdered by his son you
Self-deification? Yes, making themselves gods. And you see it all through history. The ancient Babylonian emperors were regarded as gods. The Roman emperors started calling themselves gods and all the rest of it.
cities today in 1752 there BC there was this great king Hammer Rabbi and he was the king of Babylonian he kind of unified a large territory with many cultures in it and as part of that effort he created a code the first written code that we know of for a large region and I'm going to read
- Yeah. So, in the 19th century, about 1840, 1850, they started to find these things on excavations in Iraq, the big Assyrian cities and sometimes further south, the Babylonian cities. They found these clay tablets, which in the ground lasted unimaginable lengths of time. And they were all written in what we call cuneiform script. And the cuneiform part of it means wedge-shaped, because cuneus in Latin means wedge. And when they first saw these signs, they realized that a cluster of marks
"I have a commandment. I'd like to give it to you.” The Babylonian says, "What is it?” And God says, "Thou shalt not steal.” The Babylonian says, "No, thanks.” So God goes over to an Egyptian and offers him the same deal. When the Egyptian hears what the commandment is, he also turns it down. Then God meets Moses and says, "I have a commandment for you.” Moses says, "How much is it going to cost
So when I realized that the Sumerians, who in many ways are the inventors of slavery, because after all, the first records of slavery come from ancient Sumerian culture in a place called Babylon . Now, remember the Tower of Babel from history lessons, from the biblical story? Ancient Babel was a place where they all spoke one common language.
the Israelites have been conquered by the neo-babylonian the Babylonians exile is Israelite elites to Babylon and there you see especially in a part of the Book of Isaiah known as second Isaiah scholars because it's written by a different guy than the one who wrote earlier parts of Isaiah you see a lot of clearly
They told me, if it exists, then maybe it's here. So the Babylonians just left a blank.
They told me, if it exists, then maybe it's here. The example with the Babylonians, they used things in context.
They told me, if it exists, then maybe it's here. Maybe the Babylonians didn't need the Buddhist void.
Exile um because you know what happened the way they the way they get back Israel is Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers their conquerors the Babylonians he seems to be a more enlightened ruler he returns the elites
and the live fuel, and everything over charcoal, and spices that you've never heard of that represent the spice trade, the Silk Road, 2,000 years of post-Babylon diaspora, Palestinian cooking from the West Bank, from the Levant, from Gaza, the Shabbat dinners that include 100 different cultures all mushed together, it was like, why do I need to go to France?
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comparable, because there was an inscription of one of the Persian kings halfway up a mountain in a place called Bisutun, where this King Darius had written an account of his successful career in Elamite and in Babylonian and in Old Persian, a trilingual version. And Old Persian, although it's obviously an archaic form of the language, Persian is still alive. It was still alive in the 19th century. So, since the Old
passages in the other two languages. So that was the key, that kind of... the chisel that opened up cuneiform writing proper. And the thing was, they soon twigged that the language of the Babylonian was a Semitic tongue. And this was so important. I think the first word they discovered was the word for river, which is Naharu in Akkadian and نحر in Arabic and Aramaic.
Then, following that, in that middle block, you have some text which we call the Gemara. That's from 500 CE Babylonia. Then, on the right, you have people commenting on that middle text, a man named Rashi, who was 11th century France.
Because Palmyra, a caravan city in the middle of the desert there, all along the trading routes, because it's been Rome on its eastern fringe there, it's where Rome blended with the Babylonian and Mesopotamian cultures and with the Persian cultures and with the ancient Egyptian cultures, and that resulted in a special fusion of the cultures to create the Palmyran civilization, which is unique.
the Eternal Christ that existed since the beginning of time that includes everything that includes the Stone Age people the Mayan empire the Babylonian Empire all those were not throwaway people and and you would have thought monotheists the three monotheistic
They told me, if it exists, then maybe it's here. And that's what the Babylonians did.
piano7 37 well a bit of ancient Persian history Bo give me that Bell statue thing it says to the Babylonians you need to know your history before you have a look at what's that PO upon his head says a
I mean, his job is to sort of read almost everything in an area and distill it down into something the rest of us can pretend to understand. So he talked about looking at Babylonian manuscripts of how they described the algorithms in ancient Babylonia 4,000 years ago just to sort of see how did they think about algorithms. And then, he found a Sanskrit document from the 13th century about combinatorial math and really felt that this was actually quite sweet.
He should be put to death. I mean, it was Babylon 3,800 years ago, so they were not-- didn't have a very sophisticated legal code. And then of course, if it kills the first born, the first born son of the architect is put to death.
You look at a startup in London called Babylon , which is delivering today AI-based health care and triage to about 1 and 1/2 million citizens in the UK officially by the National
in the so the earliest writing that we have is from Babylon we have sort of uniform tablets there's loads of stuff
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They told me, if it exists, then maybe it's here. So that's-- the way I understand it-- what the Babylonians did.
They told me, if it exists, then maybe it's here. Well, the Babylonian culture is very old.
say the earliest clearly monotheistic utterance is during the Exile when the the Israelites have been conquered by the neo-babylonian the Babylonians exile is Israelite elites to Babylon and there you see especially in a part of the Book of Isaiah known as second Isaiah scholars
It’s a 4,000-year-old message in a bottle from ancient Babylon -- a precursor to the quadratic equation.
By the waters, the waters of Babylon .
on maths there I mean interestingly there's a lot more stuff we know from Babylon that we do in terms of written
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In the legends of slavery, we see that the god of Egypt, which was Ra, the sun god, left Egypt, became known as Amun Ra, went to this historical characters in Babylon named Nimrod, and that's where the Tower of Babel was formed, from the Amun Ra. Of course, the story picks up later in the various histories.
to slavery in order to pursue these material objectives. And of course, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are there as a reminder to us. As the science progressed, some very, very interesting people came on the scene.
disciples will do as soon as possible, you actually have to cope with two languages: the Sumerian and the Babylonian. Now, the first thing is this, that the Babylonian language is a Semitic tongue, which although it's extinct, is connected to or related to Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, Syriac. All that family of Semitic languages which are still alive. It's an early example of one of those. So that when the decipherment came
This is a clay model of the liver of a sheep from ancient Babylonia.
it has to do with what what Israelites did to kind of maintain their self-esteem in the wake of the complete and utter trauma of the Exile I mean their temple had been destroyed by the Babylonians and they had been exiled and they were trying to make sense of it and they did it with this elaborate story that I get into in the book but but all
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And of course, Sam Calagione has done incredible beers based on ancient Egypt and Babylon .
But of course, that technology was used, those ships were used to go and bring the African slaves out of Africa and bring them across into the New Worlds to become enslaved. And so what we've seen from the ancient history, both from Babylon to Egypt to today is the use of technology to empower a certain group of people, but at the same time to subjugate and put others into a position of vulnerability to that technology.
for another bit. And gradually, they piece together the literature, and the assumption has always been that if you put them all together again, you'll have the whole library. But it's the absolute opposite, because what happened was that the Babylonians in the south, in my opinion, they worked hand-in-glove with the Elamites from Iran. They had a pincer movement, and they beat Assyria, they conquered Assyria. And they ran through
University of Birmingham where I went to university, and - It started in the '20s, and they made a dictionary of the Babylonian language.
University of Birmingham where I went to university, and And then around the 1800s, people started to write them down in Sumerian or Babylonian. So there was a corpus, and eventually
or some kind of lifesaving necessity for a village. And it begins in the Talmud, that first-source Babylonian Talmud.
There's a beautiful, old story, an old Babylonian myth-- some of you may know it-- about this merchant who sends his servant
Go back to the earliest writings there is, on Babylonian clay tablets, and they're just full of sevens.