Sumeria

They are like stamps, so you roll them in ink, you put them on paper, you can see the picture, same thing.

So in ancient Samaria, they would roll their seals on leather or something else that would leave an imprint.

These were typically used to sign a letter or a package and weren't anything super special, but it did verify the authenticity of whatever they were putting the imprint on, kind of like signing a contract.

The seals were made of wood, bronze, stone, whatever the owner of the cylinder seal could afford.

In early 1948, the U.S. government had sent two archaeologists to the National Museum of Iraq to purchase two of these cylinder seals.

The Americans were willing to pay handsomely for these two seals, while the curator at the museum didn't fully grasp their importance.

They were just gold cylinder seals to him, and he had a bunch of seals like them because they weren't super special in Samaria, and they had a bunch of them just kind of like laying around.

So he's like, if they want these two seals and they're willing to pay that much for it, I'll sell them all the cylinder seals I have and they'll pay me really well.

So the ancient alien hypothesis tends to be one that supports your preferred beginning of civilization.

But the whole point of the book is that civilization didn't begin with Samaria and Egypt.

We have this tremendous cultural complexity going further back.

So I think, again, it's kind of like splitting it into two layers and going, well, let's actually work out what we do know about humans.

They're interpreted with the kind of religion of the time.

So even if there were – and I mean, why wouldn't there be? These seem to be fairly common occurrences.

So even if there were full-blown, quote-unquote, UFO incidents in Egypt or Samaria – they would be interpreted into the belief systems of the time.

Because that sort of seems to be how it works.

Yeah, exactly.

So, um, yeah, so what I got, my re- what my research has brought me to is this, that 8,500 years ago, um, there was an intervention in Samaria, w- what is now modern-day Iraq, what was then, um, known as Mesopotamia.

And, um, the, there's these Samarian clay tablets that people have studied, and David Icke shined light on them, and Zecharia Sitchin shi- shines some light on them, and other people.

And what they say is that, you know, these tablets say in the cuneiform language, which is the oldest language really we have ...

Well, not really, it is the oldest language we have in this world, is that these Anunnaki, you know, came to earth, uh, in a spaceship and they, uh, they, they needed to mine gold to take back and patch up their ozone layer which was depleted on planet Nibiru or Planet X. Um, and so they enslaved people, um, to mine that gold, um, in South Africa, um, is where they started mining it.

That's where still the biggest gold mines are on the planet.

And, um, they did bi- you know, the tablets talk about how they did DNA experiments on people, created a new species of kind of worker bee human, um, from we don't know what, but, um, all kinds of stuff.

And then basically, you know, they became the rulers of Samaria and they forced, the tablets talk about how they forced the Samarians into, um, into agriculture from hunting and gathering existence, which they had done before that.

We thought there was no writing system before Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Then we found the cuneiform tablets in the ancient Samaria, and we thought there was no writing system, and even still today, academics will argue that that is the earliest writing system that we have, that humans have ever created.

Göbekli Tepe precedes that by about 4,000 years.

So we are now going to say that these people were able to quarry stone, carry it 100 meters to its location, some of them weighing 16 tons, worth mentioning, all of them very specifically placed, yet somehow they didn't know how to write things down.

So we all know that prostitution is the oldest industry, but the hierarchy dates back to.

2400 BCE in ancient Samaria.

Prostitution was considered sacred and connected to worshipping the goddess Ishtar.

The prostitutes were split into three classes.