13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron
Added 2021-10-06 09:25:02 +0000 UTCI'm very excited to announce the launch of our video accompaniment to the 13th episode, The Assyrians: Empire of Iron. This episode got a great response in audio, so I've felt a lot of pressure to do the subject justice in the visual medium.
- This episode features the return of Kais Jacob Ishak, and his 3D reconstructions of the ancient cities of Assyria in their golden ages, allowing us to fly over the streets of Nineveh, Babylon, Ashur and Nimrud as they looked in the 7th century BC.
- We're also able to see the incredible ruined sites of Nineveh and Ashur in unprecedented detail, thanks to the aerial photography of Mohaymn Al-Wasmi, our resident drone operator in Iraq.
- We've tried to recreate the original colourings of many of the Assyrian carvings, thanks to the digital skills of Jeramy Smith at Progenitor Studios, so that the scenes of war and everyday life come to life like never before.
- We've also added some premium re-enactment to help bring the period to life in all its colour.
All of this simply wouldn't be possible with the investment you guys have made in the project of Fall of Civs, and I can't thank you enough for helping us to make these episodes the best they can be.
Stay tuned for more audio episodes and announcements coming soon...
Comments
Thanks Sarah, I'm really glad you've enjoyed
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2025-01-02 08:00:34 +0000 UTCI am on my third listen of this incredible episode (the first, audio-only, got me through a long holiday drive). The intersections with Biblical events have been great for providing a context of that ancient world. Though all said and done, it's hard to be sad about the fall of the Assyrian empire. Aside from the great beer, it didn't seem like the most pleasant world to live in.
Sarah Smith
2025-01-02 00:43:25 +0000 UTCIncredible episode, certainly hope the Hittites get their own to round out the near eastern bronze age. Well done.
katieveelmao
2024-09-13 23:11:50 +0000 UTCThanks my friend, that's very kind
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2024-07-09 09:00:04 +0000 UTCI stumbled upon your podcast in this past weekend’s NYT. The Assyrians is the first episode I listened to. Even without any visuals I felt like I was right there. Man, the description of the siege engines was mind-blowing. And Xenophon fleeing the Persian army stumbling upon the ruins of Nineveh, long forgotten. It sure puts things in perspective.
Monkeypoint
2024-07-08 22:15:31 +0000 UTCThank you for the great episode! In some of the reliefs the king appears to be wearing something that looks like a watch - what is it?
Yury Korolev
2024-04-23 19:03:28 +0000 UTCDo you have a Bibliography for this episode by any chance? I loved this one and would love to pick up some of the books/articles that informed this episode. Amazing work. Thank you for breathing life into ancient history!!
Nell
2024-02-26 04:35:26 +0000 UTCAnother favorite episode for me. There's just something about that region/era (mesopotamia) that is so fascinating and amazing. I used to be a big on Rome, until I started watching Fall of Civilisation, and realised just how incredibly deep, rich, and far back our history actually goes. Thank you so much for expanding my horizons, Paul.
castor troy
2022-07-23 10:08:38 +0000 UTCThe videos aren’t working well for me. Please post some still images for those of us who can’t see the videos.
Linda Kattwinkel
2022-05-06 17:09:39 +0000 UTCI have listened to a lot of these in the car on long road trips. They are outstanding. However, I have one serious complaint and advice/request: In every episode there is at least one voice actor whose very melodramatic voice is at such a low volume that I can't hear it and have to keep fiddling with volume control on the car and the iPhone. It is extremely annoying. I think all the voice actors should be at the same volume as Paul Cooper. Thanks.
Robert Hencken
2022-03-06 02:43:29 +0000 UTCI listened to the Assyrians and found this to be the finest history broadcast I have ever had the pleasure to hear. Great job! Superb!
Eric Burwen
2022-03-02 18:13:30 +0000 UTCHave really been enjoying these podcasts. Thanks so much Paul (and everyone you work with) for putting these together! I'm learning a lot and also appreciating the noting of controversy and the weighing of evidence as it comes up in the telling of these stories. Great work! Looking forward to future episodes and continuing to learn about world history!
Travis Petchell
2022-01-19 21:49:30 +0000 UTCI just finished listening to the podcast on the Assyrians and was completely mesmerized by the story! What superb research and storytelling. I've started recommending it to friends and family.
Karen Tucker
2022-01-19 17:02:49 +0000 UTCAny news on the next installment?
DVDF Merlin
2022-01-14 11:27:43 +0000 UTCThis month's Smithsonian has an article by Leon McCarron on Iraqi archeologists' efforts to preserve Assur.
Ellen Falls
2022-01-11 06:30:34 +0000 UTCPaul is a great teacher. The color restorations of the reliefs are a lot of hard work. Wish I was there with my Sumerian brothers carving and painting those. Life would have been short, but interesting.
Dave Veronick
2021-11-19 01:40:22 +0000 UTCAmazing work. Is there a way to review some of the books you relied upon? You’ve inspired me to get deeper into the subject. Cheers!
Daniel F
2021-11-14 22:34:45 +0000 UTCAbsolutely amazing coloring! We need to make the ancient art real, not bland and bleak. Everything comes alive with your brilliant narrative,illustrations and 3d reconstructions! Became patron immediately 🙂
Victoria K
2021-11-03 10:43:53 +0000 UTCMore beautiful than I ever imagined. I'd expect no less from what is now my favorite channel on Youtube. I know you are working on the vaccine project, but I hope we see Episode 14's audio come out soon - excited just to know who it is featuring this time around!
Darrin Rasberry
2021-11-03 01:46:53 +0000 UTCYes, unfortunately we're only left with what was recorded. But you might enjoy my book All Our Broken Idols, which imagines just that.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-11-02 08:36:00 +0000 UTCI want to know about the artists who made the sensitive carvings of the lions, and women and children and ordinary life during times of peace. These stories of conquering and devastation are masterfully told, but they're overwhelmingly about cruelty and egotism, and about males.
Susan Forste
2021-11-02 04:12:39 +0000 UTCSuperb!
Brian Mlazgar
2021-10-28 01:24:43 +0000 UTCOutstanding!
MARILYN JOHNSTONE
2021-10-26 20:50:03 +0000 UTCThree hours of delight! These are utterly wonderful.
Bruce L Donohue
2021-10-20 20:13:16 +0000 UTCThank you for your mastery. Kids should just watch these videos for ancient history instead of what they are serving them in school.
Ivan Anić
2021-10-17 21:20:06 +0000 UTCThanks! It's coming to YouTube soon. I usually give it to subscribers a week or so early.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-16 11:22:02 +0000 UTCI'm disappointed that this installment isn't available to the public. I always thought of this podcast as a benefit to current and future generations of humanity.
Dan Baumann
2021-10-16 11:19:26 +0000 UTCYour show is the best thing on the internet. Thx
Clayton Stamper
2021-10-13 00:37:00 +0000 UTCAlso what amazes me about these civilizations is that nothing much changes. At the fall of Nineveh you could have substituted Kabul as easily.
Lari Tiller Howell
2021-10-10 03:14:54 +0000 UTCYour FoC podcast is as good as dark chocolate for delight. Thank you. I've listed to most of your podcast and just recently joined patreon, yeah! now there's the video❣️
Lari Tiller Howell
2021-10-10 03:10:00 +0000 UTCHey Peter: I understand your sense of doing what's right. But, I wonder? if some of the antiquities had not been spirited away, we may never known about them? Cultural rivalries or disagreements have led to many amazing creations destroyed and neglected, or in the case of the middle east, closed borders, danger of travel, have lost them to the rest of the world. Good thing Paul can get in :-)
Edward Wiedemeier
2021-10-09 22:23:54 +0000 UTCExcellent as always!
Dorian Green
2021-10-08 15:47:45 +0000 UTCIs it not time for Museums of the world to make perfect copies of the antiquities which were spirited away from their original home, and to return such items to the societies to which they belong. Perhaps if our current billionaires would take on funding this and suitable museums to recieve these works instead of racing each other into space, societies of the world would have a better chance of understanding each other.
Peter Wilson
2021-10-08 06:57:08 +0000 UTCHello Paul, Thankyou for another wonderful lesson on our shared past. You craft this with wonderful images, modern drone video footage which is often breathtaking , with just right amount of digital recreation and animation in my opinion. And the audio likewise is excellent with the input of yourself and various voice actors. I get continually perplexed during episodes to place when in time this current civilisation existed compared to those alongside or before and after in time. Would it be possible and perhaps worthwhile to have a side link to a timeline which in turn links to your other videos and sources? Sorry my financial input is not large but I am living on a reduced pension but I hope there are enough grateful viewers around the world keen to support such a wonderful balanced history of us - MAN. I believe your presentation goes some way to restore dignity to parts of the world which have been at the forefront of mans development only to fall or be destroyed and discounted by ignorance or lack of this knowledge. A good example would be modern IRAQ. I was fortunate enough to travel India to Turkey overland as a youngster so can almost be there in these episodes. A different time and a much more open world in many ways. With best wishes to you and your colloborators. Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
2021-10-08 06:52:27 +0000 UTCCan anyone view this video?
Jessica Rios
2021-10-07 03:13:36 +0000 UTCVideo doesn’t exist
Beth Klein
2021-10-07 00:49:58 +0000 UTCGood to hear!
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 23:29:27 +0000 UTCYep the problems are now resolved and everything is working perfectly
ErykBak
2021-10-06 23:21:49 +0000 UTCMy pleasure Eryk! Are the video problems resolved now?
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 22:27:12 +0000 UTCThank you Paul for creating a place where us history and story lovers can come together and experience these wonderful accounts of the past and for a moment lose ourselves within the stories of these ancients that came before us
ErykBak
2021-10-06 22:22:55 +0000 UTCHaha a good summary
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 21:22:07 +0000 UTCThank you Elizabeth, I really appreciate the kind words.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 21:21:37 +0000 UTCOkay, one more comment! Your voice actors are wonderful! I am overwhelmed with the quality of your work. It's beautiful, thought-provoking, and belongs on a much wider stage. Thank you.
Elizabeth Orman
2021-10-06 21:16:12 +0000 UTCI want to commend you for producing a gorgeous review of an empire that excelled in nothing so much as mercilessly killing everything around it while maintaining an admirable objectivity, at the most appropriate level of course. It's hard to even understand what they got out of all that. Everyone else playing the same empire game and they wanted to be best I suppose, but given opportunities to do something different, save money, save aggravation, just not smash everything, they never take it or even seem to realize it's possible. Hasn't changed much though, has it. Your video is breathtaking and I love the way you slip in those moments of someone walking through what must be wheat. The extensive study of that lion-hunt was particularly careful, thorough, and the subject was like everything else about Assyria, horrifying.
Elizabeth Orman
2021-10-06 21:14:16 +0000 UTCI'll hopefully be able to watch this soon, but the effort your team put in sounds amazing! Looking forward to watching My conclusion after listening to this episode is that most of their problems would have been solved if they didn't just raze every city for petty reasons. Like, chill
Graham
2021-10-06 13:31:53 +0000 UTCGlad to be of help!
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 13:07:14 +0000 UTCApologies Michael. Try this direct link: https://vimeo.com/622729955/5099e658db
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 13:06:56 +0000 UTCSorry! Try using this link directly: https://vimeo.com/622729955/5099e658db
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 13:06:40 +0000 UTCApologies! Try using this link directly: https://vimeo.com/622729955/5099e658db
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 13:06:32 +0000 UTCSorry about that! Try using this link directly: https://vimeo.com/622729955/5099e658db
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 13:06:16 +0000 UTCMy sons in 6th grade and they’re learning about “First Civilizations”. I played the beginning of episode 8 for him this morning.
J-Rod
2021-10-06 12:58:14 +0000 UTCSame here. Not playing for me.
Michael Wiegers
2021-10-06 12:52:20 +0000 UTCVery frustrating! How about now?
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 11:51:52 +0000 UTCStill seeing the error.
Jan Vilhuber
2021-10-06 11:42:14 +0000 UTCI also got that message that it doesn’t exist :/
ErykBak
2021-10-06 11:42:12 +0000 UTCSame issue. Hopefully it’s working by this weekend.
Sureshv456
2021-10-06 11:42:08 +0000 UTCAh apologies - should work now?
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 10:38:37 +0000 UTCAh apologies - should work now?
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
2021-10-06 10:38:35 +0000 UTCI also get that message
Daniel John Smith
2021-10-06 10:32:17 +0000 UTCI get feedback "sorry this video does not exist", maybe some kind of technical issue?
Nicolò Vezzini
2021-10-06 10:22:00 +0000 UTC
