Uruk 5000 B.C. Historical Simulation

Historical simulation showing everyday life of Uruk in Ancient Mesopotamia through the use of virtual reality and Artificial Intelligence. The historical site was reconstructed based on the results of archaeological excavations, settlement maps, museum exhibits, history books and in consultation with subject matter experts.

This works is published in A. Bogdanovych, T. Trescak: To Plan or Not to Plan: Lessons Learned from Building Large Scale Social Simulations . In proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017), Springer, 2017. pp. 53-62.

[akeldama]

I love how some of them are on boats while others just walk through the water since it's only knee-high

[Chirchy]

Credit to the guy who lived 7, 000 years just to post this on YouTube

[luisjimenezruperez]

It is amazing to think how similar is this life 5000 ago to life in some places nowadays

[JamesPeach]

Great work. Definitely deserves more views. I do have a question, what's up with the music?

[georgalem]

Absolutely terrific! All this progress that we have made: where we were, where we are and where we may go!!!

This is beautiful beyond any other thing!

[play-toe]

Dude, the flora was more richly thriving. Mesopotamia wasn't a desert place yet.

[leonardoromero]

I wish for an archeological game like a GTA of the first cultures of humanity.
Nicely done. I want to do something like this. T_T

[bradsimpson]

VERY nice ! Keep up the good work! Can't wait to share with my son.

[LaB]

I love the music with this! It’s somehow fitting and nostalgic.

[subway]

Naw but how they built ts without chatgpt?

[danielcastillol]

How Beautiful Simulation!! Thank you very much!!

proud to be Iraqi, we have sumer, babylon, assyria, akka, all these civilization gave to the world a lot and more, one day we will return back again to judge the middle east empety of backwards, savages and Terorisits, we made first rules in the world and we will fix it to

[rickc-___]

Simple and peaceful life without all the bullshit

[clocko]

If it wasn’t for the intro I would think this was a gameplay of something
The music had me laughing

[PhoenixLyon]

Absolutely beautiful. I loved seeing the fish swimming in that clear water! I think the music fits. Listen to the lyrics.😺

[styling_playz]

Meanwhile indians fighting for mahabhart

[kannac]

the song ruins the mood but excellent work

[josephdugan]

I did not realize people in mesopotamia at that time were so dark. Also, would it have been that dry and desert like? I thought that happened later. Beautiful simulation.

[sszorin]

Very helpful video, thanks. But the awful music track does NOT fit. In fact it is distracting and ruins the attempt to imagine oneself to be there in that settlement, seven thousands of years ago. There is a lot's of instrumental music which is in the public domain and could have been used.
I also have a problem with what I consider to be an inaccurate portrayal of the ethnic type of people inhabiting this ancient place. They certainly were not negroids from sub-saharan Africa. Stop the frame at 2:21 and look at the profile of a woman. She has the shape of skull of a negro from the sub-saharan Africa.

[georgalem]

Oh this video was re-uploaded? I liked the previous version (with the different music) much better.

Could you please give a link to that music?