Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Fall of the First Cities - The Sumerians

quote [ In the dusts of Iraq, the ruins of the world's first civilization lie buried. This episode, we travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and built some of the largest cities that the world had ever seen. ]

Surprisingly well made, with beautiful photography.
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[by cb361@6:29pmGMT]

Comments

WeiYang said @ 12:37pm GMT on 2nd Sep
I quite like this series of videos. Well made, seems to be up to date, at least as far as I know things about the subjects...it's good stuff.
cb361 said[1] @ 5:35pm GMT on 2nd Sep
It's an unfortunate sign of the times when viewers complement a historical documentary maker on not including any prehistoric aliens.
WeiYang said @ 7:38pm GMT on 2nd Sep
it's more just doc's in general; the more i know about the subject, the more likely it seems I am going to catch something wrong. I have read some about Ur, i did not catch any oopsies.
hellboy said @ 1:47pm GMT on 2nd Sep
I fucking love this stuff.
hellboy said @ 6:53am GMT on 8th Sep
OTOH I'm finding the pretentious over-enunciation of the narrator distracting. He sounds like the news readers Eric Idle lampooned. YouTube is full of film analyses with a similar problem. It's like these guys are trying really hard to sound as serious and compelling as Sir David Attenborough, but they haven't noticed that he doesn't try. Certainly makes me appreciate him more.

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