MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 20/01/2025 - 20/01/2025
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00:00Welcome to Mediane TV and we are heading to the site of Nimrod, a jewel of the Assyrian Empire in Iraq, where archaeologists have found tens of thousands of fragments, vestiges of an ancient palace destroyed by terrorists.
00:23After its rise in power in 2014, the group of Daesh had taken possession of Nimrod, where its fighters had pulverized temples and palaces about thirty kilometers from Mosul.
00:35Some 500 bas-reliefs and tiles of all sizes have thus been blown to smithereens, as well as several lamassus and fabulous bulls, or winged lions with human faces, which adorned the palace of the Assyrian king Asur-Na-Sipol, two old men of nearly 3,000 years.
00:53Thanks to meticulous excavations, more than 35,000 fragments have already been collected by archaeologists on this site, which Iraq envisages to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
01:06I invite you to listen to Abdel Ghani Ghadi, an archaeologist, and Ahmed Farikh al-Badrani, the Iraqi Minister of Culture.
01:15It is a heritage for all of humanity, a story that dates back 3,000 years. It has a great historical depth. The Assyrian civilization is an ancient civilization, and we can see proof of this in its sculptures, palaces and irrigation canals.
01:35Every time we find an object and put it back in its original place, it is like making a new discovery. These objects can be considered treasures for Mesopotamia or Iraq, my country. It is therefore a great joy to remove a piece of this historical heritage or this treasure and put it back in its original place.
01:54We have collected more than 35,000 archaeological pieces. It took us 1,300 boxes to classify them. We are now in the process of rehabilitation, restoration, maintenance and reassembly of antiquities as they were before the attack operations of the Daesh on the archaeological site of Nimrod.
02:21The restoration will require foreign expertise and international support, as the destruction was done in a barbaric way, the specialists say.
02:40One of the most important ancient sites of Mesopotamian civilization, Nimrod bears witness to the art of architecture and Assyrian civilization at a time when its artistic production reached new heights.
02:55As early as the 19th century, Nimrod acquired an international reputation when huge amassus were brought to the British Museum in London or the Louvre in Paris. Other artifacts from the site where the British author Agatha Christie lived with her second husband, an archaeologist, were exhibited in Moussoul and Bardaid.
03:16Founded in the 13th century BC, Nimrod housed the second capital of the Assyrian Empire. We listen to Mohamed Qassim, he is the director of the Office of the University Research Institute in Iraq.
03:31So far, it is a process of collection, classification and isolation of objects. The process will continue after the implementation of the necessary plan. The teams of the authority will carry out the complex restoration process, but there will also be an effort and international support through the Ministry of Culture and the General Authority of Antiquities and Heritage.
03:54We need foreign expertise in the maintenance of the site, because the level of destruction was barbaric and never seen before on an archaeological site in modern history.
04:06And music now, to talk about the fifth album, Khuyut, by the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar. For the artist, this new opus is the fruit of a period of renewal and a desire to renew with a certain lightness, with this complex simplicity, that of keeping the same thrill at the execution and recording that one feels when a song is born.
04:29Khuyut, plural of khit, which means thread, a string, filament, string. In the more poetic context of the songs of the album, the word Khuyut often comes back to designate the links with what is hidden behind the visible filament that crosses space and connects us to a powerful and magical source. I suggest you listen to this excerpt.
05:29Khuyut, the first album of the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar, was released in 2013. It is the first album of the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar, and the first album of the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar.
05:54Khuyut, the first album of the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar, was released in 2013. It is the first album of the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar, and the first album of the Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar.
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