2009 Dhi Qar governorate election

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Ur: Iraq Like I said before, it is today is the 9th of April 200...9. We are in Iraq. The Province of Dhi Qar on Tallil Base. Next to the Ziggurat, which is there in the far end of the picture. The whole area is covered with pottery pieces. (Dr. Brian Rose) It's estimated that at the time of Ur-Nammu, the city was about 65,000 (population). That's at least what I've heard. But you're the guide. I defer to you. (Dhaif Munsen) The total area of 4 to 5 Kilometers. And width between 1 kilometer and a half to 2 kilometers. When Woolley dug here, did he put in stakes or concrete markers for the measurements of the buildings that he found? When he excavated? Yeah, he do in sequenece. We don't have the corners of the squares still fixed in the ground? No, not so. But the end of it came Iraq excavators and he put in the end of the site. Poles there in the ground near the moist areas. This is the end of the site here and here to road to the gate. When did the bricks, the new bricks? 1961. They are stamped in Arabic. Year 1961. So it's before Sadam Hussein. No no before, before. Saddam in 1968. But this 1961. Saddam, he not doing anything for the site. He not excavated, not anything. Just the home. The house of Abraham. Now it's depending to you because you are from Pennsylvania Museum. You teach me. No no no, you know more than I do. No one wants to hear me. You have far more information than I do. Speaking just the building because other things you know things about it. No, no, no, I'm so ignorant, I can't tell you. Who lived here? Sumerian. And here three periods. First period called Al-Ubaid period about 4,000 years BC. Second period called Jemdet Nasr period 2900 years BC. Third called the beginning of the dynasties period 2800 - 2400 years BC. But the famous dynasty third dynasty. Most of the building which is still to this time during the Third Dynasty. Between 2113 - 2006 years BC. The founder of the third dynasty King Ur-Nammu. Ur-Nammu ruled 17 years. 2113 - 2096 years BC Second King Shulgi, son of King Ur-Nammu. And he ruled for a long time, 47 years. 2095 - 2048 years BC. The third King called Amar-Sin, the grandson of King Ur-Nammu's son of King Shulgi. And Amar-Sin ruled 8 years. 2047-2039 years BC. And later came Shu-Sin and last King Ibbi-Sin. This building called Ziggurat of Ur. Built during Third Dynasty of the Sumerians. Built during time of King Ur-Nammu and his son King Shulgi. This building for worship. Around the tomb of Queen Shu-bad (Puabi), the excavators found 59 skeletons for 59 person. For servants, guards of the queen and other things. They found with her golden harp. Golden Goat. It is covered by shells. The Standard of Ur in War and Standard of Ur in Peace. This British Museum. This rebuilt later This one they built by putting the material cement but the rest of the wall from here to here original. So later they putting mortar cement and at that time tar And sometimes mud. And the arch? Arch original. Sir Leonard Wooley, he putting layer of cement later in 1922. To stop erosion. This here is the ziggurat. Here are the temples. Here are the pillars, Royal Tombs. This is the sacred wall, and this is the second wall, the big wall. Sacred wall built during the Third Dynasty and second wall later During the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in 605 BC In the Neo-Babylonian Period. Yes, new Babylonian time. So this is the map of the site and the two walls. This the original writing. The kind we call cuneiform. This the second kind of writing in the world; The first writing (was) iconographic (hieroglyphs) and this (is the second) cuneiform. Yeah cuneiform. This war here 2003 no not any damage happened in the ziggurat and all the site but 1991, Saddam, he putting some airplanes near the stairs so maybe they taking pictures for the airplanes and bombed it But he pulled it before about 15 minutes before they bombed it. Some of the shells came for the ziggurat. But this war? No, not anything But so was the ziggurat, was any part of the ziggurat seriously damaged? in 1991? No just some shells. The rocket far, but reached for the ziggurat but not caused important damage. Little, some shells. And where exactly did Saddam Hussein put the planes? During the war in 1991? 91 Where did he put them? Putting near the stair, but the airplanes He not want to damage the ziggurat so the rocket this side from the airplane not beside the ziggurat. Not easy to land a plane here. They put it on trucks and bring it. Always putting rocket near college, near museum. I don't know why he putting this always like this. It's to protect them so if anything happens, they hit the planes and the ziggurat was damaged and of course he would blame the Americans. Oh they are destroying Iraqi cultural heritage. He not said that he putting airplanes. He said the Americans came and damaged the ziggurat. Not said about the airplanes. Yes, different in the colors of the walls are different and the kind of the tar between those walls and this wall. Here more quantities of tar and the color of the bricks became yellow. Those walls rebuilt in 1961 and here original. So one rebuilt later, they putting tar from refinery of oil. And here at that time the kind of the tar, natural tar. This here white stone door hinge. Maybe you found it in the museum? Putting some of it like this? The door like this, wooden door. So they putting the base of the door here To make the movement of the door easily when they opened and closed the door. Yeah so this door hinge. (Descending into the Tombs of the Third Dynasty of Ur) One piece of new information for you, we have some of the skulls from the Royal Tombs of Ur, from Puabi's Tomb We have it in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and we looked two years ago at the skulls again and someone had hit them over the head with a hammer. Who? So they didn't drink--Who? I don't know who. Evil people. Mean people. No there were six soldiers found in the tombs so we think that the six soldiers hit the women over the head, the 67 women, hit them on the head, and then someone killed the six soldiers. And then there's evidence that the bodies were smoked like a barbeque to preserve them for a longer period of time. And so there seems to have been no poison. Only the hitting over the head. So we just found this out two years ago. Oh, thank you sir for this information. This is good information and from Pennsylvania Museum, from a good source. Thank you.