MESOPOTAMIA - EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 8 mins
  • Description: The film opens with views of two sets of ruins, one with children playing. This is followed by close-ups, probably in both Babylon and Ctesiphon, of "carvings, depicting biblical incidents, hewn out of the solid rock by ancient workmen with their primitive implements, more than a thousand years ago". In fact this shows some fairly sophisticated Assyrian relief carvings made in about 750 BC. These show, among other items, a sun-symbol (with spread wings), and men hunting boar from the backs of elephants. Some British soldiers are in shot for part of the film.
    Ancient ruins, including Babylon and Ctesiphon, in Mesopotamia, 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / arts, Mesopotamian - architecture: Babylon / arts, Mesopotamian - architecture: Ctesiphon / buildings, Mesopotamian - historic / 01/3(567) / Turkey & Babylon, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: International Film Service
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound