cuneiform

Consider the evolution of writing itself.

Cuneiform began as simple pictographic tallies pressed into clay by Sumerian accountants around 3200 BCE.

Over time, this system evolved into a sophisticated system capable of recording epic poetry, legal codes, and astronomical observations.

Egyptian hieroglyphics followed a similar arc, from tomb labels to the literature of the Middle Kingdom.

Now, there's no way that happened.

There's absolutely no way, because Akkadian and Cuneiform had really only been deciphered 30 years earlier.

There was a big contest in 1857 where they gave names four different scholars, a newly discovered inscription and said, what's it say? And all four of them put their translations into envelopes, turned them into the secretary, and they were about 90, 95% identical.

So they, in 1857, okay, we can now read Akkadian and we can do Cuneiform.

So that's only 30 years earlier.

Now, Budge is an Egyptologist.

Walking ahead of the bound spirit, there's a woman holding the rope, leading him back to the gates of the underworld.

Cuneiform text inscribed across the tablet outlines a ritual to help a lonely spirit cross peacefully into the afterlife.

According to the text, the ghost had returned to the living world because it lacked a partner and companionship in the realm of the dead.

The tablet instructs an exorcist to craft two figurines at sunrise, dress them up, and prepare a meal of beer and bread.

And I hope I did a good job of doing that.

I've received nothing but rave reviews and good kudos from a lot of people with regards to how I was able to logically put these timelines together, tie the Acadian back to the Acadian-Canadian form, to the Gray's writing system.

I really do my best to show these connections.

And again, that's why the Colonel contacted me because I had already done lots of work on human origins and finding evidences pointing various cultures throughout Africa, Europe, even in the Americas, you know, somehow have strange connections that point back to where? But to the ancient Near East.

One was a cylinder, which was basically a reverse carving of an imprint.

So if you were to roll it over wet clay with a positive imprint, and so aside from cylinder seals, they also had these cuneiform texts where someone who could actually write cuneiforms on honor, not everyone could do it, was called a scribe, and a scribe used something that looked kind of like an oversized screwdriver, and they would twist it and turn it, poking it into the clay, making these little shapes.

And so their, their text Cuneiform script would then be accompanied by the cylinder seal positive pictograms that were left in clay so they could very easily disseminate to the city text and, and, and pictures to go with the text, giving a much more accurate information about what the information they were trying to relay.

And there were thousands, almost hundreds of thousands of these cuneiform tablets excavated from Southern Iraq, and they just, you know, they cover their daily lives of transactions, laws of judges and things, but they also recorded their daily interaction with beings they called the Anunnaki, and that term simply meant those who from heaven come to earth.

So the interesting thing of what we're gonna discuss tonight is the fact that scientifically and archeologically, we, Sumerian culture, its veracity information to mathematics and astronomy and science, things that we can prove.