East to West 101 Between Two Rivers Subs for non-English segments only.
When you look across the horizon,
you feel like the entire world is beneath you.
You can reach out to every side of the horizon.
From here you can see how the civilizations came together.
If we start from East to West...
In China civilization's journey started by the Yellow River,
and then continued by other rivers.
Also in India along the Indus and Ganges valleys...
we see the first artworks.
Metals were brought here from Anatolia
As well as other materials such as precious metals from Majan, Oman
and Dilmun, Al-Bahrain, which are to the south.
They were all distributed from here to all of the East
and other regions of the ancient world.
We are now in the throns hall of the Palace of Zimri-Lim
which dates back to the second millenium BC.
On the opposite side is the base...
on which sat king Zimri-Lim's throne.
It was made of precious woods, gold, silver, and ivory.
We have discovered the red traces of the fire on the walls.
We can see the level has been transformed by the heat
and that was the end of Mari.
We can't ignore the importance of Greek civilizations
but Greek civilization wasn't born on its own,
it didn't happen spontaneously.
They accumulated lots of things from civilizations before them,
repackaged them and presented them back to us.
They are a starting place for the adventure of humanity
Eastern cultures and civilizations travelled to the West...
via the Greek islands.
Knowledge and philosophical traditions...
from Greek islands spread to the rest of the world.
To Dumuzi, the husband of your youth,
to him you have allotted perpetual weeping, year on year.
You loved the shepherd, the grazer, the herdsman
you struck him and turned him into a wolf
so his own shepherd boys drive him away
and his dogs take bites at his thighs