Mount Nemrut: Burial Place of the God-Kings of Ancient Anatolia

Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman explore Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dag) in Turkey. It is an immense mound on a mountaintop located in the eastern Taurus mountain range in southern Turkey, near the town of Adiyaman. Mount Nemrut is home to an ancient complex built by the fourth, and arguably the most famous, king of Commagene, Antiochus I Theos (the ‘God King’). In Armenian legend, Hayk defeated the Biblical king Nimrod (equated with Bel) and buried him in these mountains.

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[marganitaashureta]

The historic landscape of Commagene is located in today's Southeastern Turkey at the angle between the Euphrates in the east and the Antitaurus with the Malatya Dağları in the northwest. In the south, it extends to the Euphratian passage at Zeugma, near today's Birecik and to Doliche at modern Gaziantep. After the end of the Iron Age Kingdom of Kummuh, the country was an Assyrian, later Babylonian province, until the conquest of Babylon by the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids in 539 BC. After two centuries of belonging to the Persian Empire, the rule of Alexander the Great, the Armenians and finally the Seleucids followed. In 163 BC The governor, Ptolemy, renounced the Seleucid kingdom and founded the independent kingdom of Commagene. In the reign of his successor Mithridates Kallinikos and his son Antiochus I. Kommagene lay between the interests of the Roman Empire in the West and the Parthians in the East. Influences from this prehistory and the present situation in a region of tension were decisive for the cult of King, introduced by Antiochus, and thus for the organization of the Hierothesion, which he probably completed towards the end of his reign in the second half of the 1st century BC. Erected on the Nemrut Dağı.

[PJBubbles]

I was there just after sunrise…amazing light on the statues. ❤️

[sandyscott]

THANKS FOR SHARING A PLACE MANY MAY NEVER GET TO EXPERIENCE, AMAZING😁😉

[dellingson]

Thanks Andrew, i haven't seen this place before.

[donnysandley]

Absolutely incredible 👍 can you just imagine them completely restored 😯

[melinebaghdasaryan]

Besides the stunning spectacle and technological feat of these seated statues with their heads on the ground beneath their feet, one of the most appealing characteristics of this shrine is the diversity it represents. Antiochos descended from an Armenian king and a Greek-Syrian princess. The gods depicted on Mount Nemrut come from both Greek and Persian traditions, while the sculpture of Antiochos wears an Armenian hat.

According to a 237-line Greek inscription on the shrine, Antiochos attempted to start a new cult that amalgamated Greek, Persian and Armenian beliefs and struck a balance between the East and the West.

[LittleOrla]

Thank you. Beautifully done. I love the music. I'm certain your tours must be wonderful.

[EnigmaSeekerUAP]

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[kobehal]

Thanks. Always wanted a better look here.

[daydreamer]

They were built by Kommagene king from armenian Ervanduni dynasty

[vishalpatil]

nice video, can you plz tell backround music by which artist.?

[kevomanoukian]

These are Armenian gods my friend, when these things were being built there was no name such as anatolia, it used to be called the Armenian highlands.. just a little history background

[jordisalvadobuque]

What wonderful place 👍!!!
Ancient history telled by images.
🌐🐱🎇🎇🎇

[jacobread]

Thanks for posting this.
I wish Graham Hancock would come back to the surface to share more of what he's found lately
Phenomenal content!

[aamirnawab]

Im very much 100% agreed with mr andrew collins this place looks much much older could be the secret n religious site even before the king who construct such a iconic n mysterious stone work here at this altitud which was not an easy task back then, well this is really shocking discovery

[tigranharutunyan]

Those are ancient Armenian Gods and Kings.

[tfsheahan]

Wonderful combination of clips and haunting music. Could stand a more on the background of the place, and how it got that way.

[kennymichaud]

Absolutely beautiful. Would have love to watched it been built. Do any of the heads belong to the sitting statues up on the next level? Looks like the whole area is heavily eroded. Was built out of huge blocks that are worn to gravel. Im wondering if everything was made of a geopolyomers

[marcin]

If the mountain top is artificial, what's buried there? You hint at Gobekli Tepe and don't ask this obvious question?

[MrGee]

It seems something has been deliberately covered/buried. Someday I hope we learn what. Even if only by radar or whatever would be able to see inside all the loose rocks.