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Assyria vs Elam: The battle of Til Tuba

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
5 years 3 months 1 week ago

YouTube description:

The battle of Til Tuba reliefs are among some of the great masterpieces of ancient Assyrian art. The movement and details are truly stunning. That said, the scenes actually being depicted are anything but easy on the eye.

Join curator Gareth Brereton as he walks you through the reliefs that once decorated the last great king of Assyria's royal palace.
WARNING: includes scenes of drowning, flaying and wearing your deceased leader's head as a necklace.

DOUBLE WARNING: includes scenes of extreme royal hat misplacement.

Want to find out more about Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians? We've made you a master list of links all about Assyria's last great king :

Intro to Ashurbanipal: https://goo.gl/W58wPJ
Learn to write "I am Ashurbanipal" in cuneiform with Irving Finkel: https://goo.gl/v4cHRj
For more gruesome scenes of Ashurbanipal hunting lions, Gareth has written a blogpost: https://goo.gl/wFK7dt
For Ashurbanipal's less gruesome hobbies, see this blog post on Ashurbanipal's gardens (which included pet lions that were not being hunted): https://goo.gl/tcfrJs

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What't with the links in the description? They look suspect.

They are just links to articles/videos on the great Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

Intro to Ashurbanipal: https://goo.gl/W58wPJ links to https://blog.britishmuseum.org/who-was-ashurbanipal/ which is an article on the British Museum's blog.
The second link goes to a youtube video featuring Irving Finkel explaining how to write cuneiform
The third link goes to https://blog.britishmuseum.org/lion-hunting-the-sport-of-kings-2/ which is another article on the Museum's blog, on lion hunting in ancient Asyrria.
The final link is also on their blog, and is an article on King Ashurbanipal’s botanical gardens https://blog.britishmuseum.org/paradise-on-earth-the-gardens-of-ashurbanipal/

What't with the links in the description? They look suspect.

jokingly says...

I remember how the voices carried at the battle of ’til tuesday.

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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