Ancient Aliens - Secrets of the Sumerians

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

More than 7,000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians established what is considered the world’s first civilization, and they credited their extraordinary achievements to their gods, the Anunnaki. But is it possible that these powerful beings were, in fact, extraterrestrial visitors to Earth?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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What's remarkable about the Sumerians is they invent the wheel, they invent mathematics, they invent writing, but we don't know where they came from or who they were. The Sumerians are credited with dozens of innovations that are essential to modern society. We live with the legacy pioneered by the Sumerian civilization. And they claimed it was all made possible by... beings who came down from the sky. These gods coming to Earth, they gave them gifts, they gave them knowledge. Could it be that the ancient Sumerian tablets contained the secrets of our alien past? The first civilization began right there due to a direct intervention by exterrestrials

visiting from another planet. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone.

In the heart of the Middle East, there is a region known as the Fertile Crescent. It is believed to be the very first placed with organized farming, in which humans cleared and modified vegetation to grow crops. Within this region was Mesopotamia, where several of the world's first known civilizations emerged thousands of years ago. Amir Hussein is a professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University. In ancient Mesopotamia, you had gardens, you had control of water. Now it's completely different. Now it's arid. You look at that place and think,

well, wait, what was this? The climate was different. The The vegetation was completely different then. Often called the cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia was the home of the Acadian Empire that arose in 2334 BC, the Assyrian Empire that began in 2025 BC, and the Babylonian Empire established in 1894 BC. For centuries, archaeologists thought that these were the earliest peoples to inhabit the area. But in the 1800s, ancient clay tablets were discovered that would dramatically

alter the established timeline for human civilization. This is Andrew Collins, author of Origins of the Gods. In the 19th century, it was a time of great exploration in Mesopotamia, and they're finding these cuneiform tablets, and there were various languages involved with these tablets. You had Akkadian, you had Assyrian, you had Babylonian. But in the mid-1800s, the Reverend Edward Hinks, an Irish scholar with Trinity College Dublin, began to notice there was evidence of a much older script. And this was very important.

It meant that there must be some other earlier civilization. In 1869, more than two decades after Edward Hinks discovered the unique cuneiform language, archaeologists gave it the name. Sumerian. This was based on Akkadian writings that referenced the land of Sumer, which scholars believed to be the place where the mysterious language originated. Then, in 1877, at the ancient site of Gersu in present-day Iraq, nine massive stone statues were found all depicting a king named Goudia, who ruled over 4,100 years ago. Engraved on each of the statues was Sumerian writing, indicating to scholars that these were the first depictions ever found of a Sumerian.

Author Hugh Newman provides more. The discovery of the Gudea statues at Gersu was definitive proof that Sumerian cuneiform text came from a lost civilization. And the fact is, people have been discovering Sumerian structures and artifacts and crediting them to other civilizations. So now they knew there was a civilization called the Sumerian, but it wasn't until the 1920s where thousands of artifacts and cuneiform text had been discovered,

that they realized how far this civilization went back. In 1928, an article appeared in the Scientific American magazine with the subtitle, Who were the Ancient Sumerians? No one knows. But after nearly a century of collecting clues, archaeologists had determined at least one indisputable fact.

The Sumerians were the earliest civilization ever discovered, emerging around 5,000 BC, and predating all other known civilizations by at least 2,500 years. This is Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum. The Sumerians disappeared from sight entirely. They were extinct like the dinosaurs. And the only reason that we know about them today is, with the advent of archaeology, when people excavated in the Middle East and they found evidence of the Sumerians and their archaeology and their writings.

Once archaeologists became aware of the Sumerian civilization, they launched major excavations in Iraq and began to discover that the Sumerians were responsible for many world-changing innovations, like the wheel. The first Stone Potter's wheel with an axle was found in the Sumerian city of Orr

and dated to 31-29 BC. This eventually led to the first wheeled vehicles. Most of the things that we take for granted, the Sumerians invented. That's why they're so crucially important. The Sumerians are key in writing. The Sumerians are key in mathematics. The Sumerians are the ones that invent the plow.

They're the ones that first start to work copper. They're the ones that first understand how to smelt metals. The Sumerians also built some of the first known pyramidal structures. When it comes to the Samarian ziggurats and the temples they constructed, most of the construction was made of mud brick. And so much of this is either washed away or been buried over time. But there are elements of the temple, such as the giant statues, which have survived. They are made of stone, and some of them are an amazing condition.

According to mainstream historians, the first ziggurats were built around 4,000 BC. predating the earliest step pyramids in Egypt by 1,300 years. But perhaps even more impressive is that Sumerians designed these structures by using an advanced counting system. Travis Taylor is an astrophysicist. One of the first civilizations to really implement mathematics was the ancient Sumerians. And the interesting thing is they used mathematics on a base 60 system,

that's called sexogesimal, as opposed to, the decimal system with 10 that we use today. It gives you much more flexibility in the use of numbers than if you just use a decimal system. And it led to all sorts of extraordinary discoveries in mathematics, in astronomy, and other things as well. For example, they could make accurate plans of a major building to scale, and they could calculate how many bricks they needed.

In fact, they had a very modern approach to the practical problems of, for example, architecture and calculation. While much has been discovered over the past 100 years about the Sumerians and their accomplishments, the origin of this highly developed culture remains a mystery. William Henry is an author and an investigative mythologist. What's remarkable about the Samarians is nobody knows where they came from. We don't know where they were. Rabbi Ariel Bar-Sadok is the founder of the Kosher Torah School.

The ancient Sumerians had technology, they had science. This is even thousands of years before the great rise of the civilizations in Egypt. Where did this knowledge come from? How did they acquire such profound information? What could explain how this mysterious group of people so rapidly advanced from hunter-gatherers to form the world's first civilization? According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer can be found by examining the recently translated Sumerian tablets that describe other worldly beings who descended from the sky. When archaeologists began uncovering Sumerian relics in the 19th century, they knew nothing about this long-lost civilization.

Artifacts offered few clues about the Sumerian culture, and many of their structures, which were made from mud bricks, had almost completely eroded. But fortunately, what did manage to survive the ravages of time were thousands of clay tablets containing Sumerian writing. This is Heather Lynn, author of the Onanaki Connection. The Sumerians had a fully developed phonetic language that they had written on clay tablets in what's called cuneiform. Cuneiform comes from the Latin cuneas, meaning literally wedge. And what they did is they had reed stylists that had a wedge shape, and they would use wet clay. and imprint those into such a way that it would be writing. One of the great things that the Sumerians did

was precisely writing with a stylus in clay and then firing the clay so it becomes a brick and over the centuries that brick becomes essentially stone. And so unlike papyrus that gets damaged, you know, we find out all the time about papyri that get discovered and we can't open them. They're too fragile. That's not the case with these tablets. The first tablets were discovered before archaeologists were even aware that there was a Sumerian civilization.

But linguists received an important tool to help decipher them in 1850. British archaeologist Austin Henry Lainard was leading excavation efforts at an ancient Assyrian palace when he came upon a library of more than 30,000 cuneiform tablets. Some of the tablets contained not only the mysterious writing that would be later identified as Sumerian, but also Babylonian cuneiform next to it, which linguists had deciphered a few years earlier. Finally, scholars had what they needed to translate the unknown language.

But it would be several more decades before they could effectively read the texts. It wasn't until the early 20th century that we could actually translate these cuneiform tablets. And so we went for a period of many thousands of years not knowing about these people, then suddenly there's an explosion of knowledge about them in the 20th century.

The ancient Mesopotamians, they used those clay tablets for all sorts of documents, private and permanent and long term and short term, then we can read them today as if they've just been written. Researchers discover

detailed business letters, official government correspondence, and even medical texts. But most interesting to ancient astronaut theorists is a set of seven tablets known as the Enuma Elish that describe power powerful beings who came down from the sky.

Giorgio Succolos is an ancient astronaut theorist. The Enuma Elish consists of two different books, and in both books it speaks that long ago, the gods created humans in order to spread knowledge here on planet Earth. The Anuma Elish is a very important creation myth, and it indicated that these gods, what they call the Anunaki, which quite literally means from the sky to the earth came to create man in their image.

The Ananaki are the founder gods of their civilization, and they were masters of the arts and sciences bringing civilizing qualities to this part of the world. So for the Sumerians, their knowledge wasn't self-derived. Their inventions, their great things were not of their own design. They were taught by the gods. The Ananaki nurtured the Sumerians to create this great civilization. But who were the Ananaki? Were they extraterrestrials?

That's what the Sumerians are saying. Could it be that the Ananaki were not gods, but otherworldly visitors? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest further evidence can be found in a recently translated Sumerian tablet that sheds new light on a famous story of the Bible. All. Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari. In celebration of the world premiere of the Monopoly Big Board Buckslot Machine by Aristocrat Gaming,

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Monopoly is a trademark of Hasbro. a sponsor of this promotion. London, England, 2014. Dr. Irving Finkel, one of the world's foremost experts on Cuneiform writing, and a curator at the British Museum, publishes a translation of a Sumerian tablet that dates back 3,700 years. The text contains a passage that is nearly identical to the biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood. Now, anybody who's ever read the book of Genesis and knows about the flood there with an ark

and Noah and the animals of both genders and so forth, is astonished when they read the Sumerian text for the first time, because it's a funny thing. They are the same story. When this tablet came across the desk to me, it was one of those heart-stopping moments. The tablet is at least a thousand years older than the story in the Bible.

So, of course, this means that the Sumerian story and the biblical story are inseparably bound together. There's no doubt about it. The tablet deciphered by Dr. Finkel is part of a Sumerian story known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, whose protagonist is believed to be based on a historical king who ruled in the third millennium BC. The oldest story in the Western world is the epic of Gilgamesh. This is a story that's at least 4,000 years old. It covers a lot of things, but among other things, the restless search for immortality

and the fact that man was deprived of immortality. In addition to descriptions of a great flood, the epic of Gilgamesh also includes the story of the Anunnaki and their relationship with humankind. According to the text, Enl, who is the Anunaki King, is in conflict with his brother Inki, who is the creator of the first humans. Enki is seen as benevolent and an advocate for the advancement of humankind. But Enlil is seen as sort of militaristic and anti-human. And so throughout the Sumerian epics, there's this continuing battle between these two opposing

forces, these brothers. The two brothers have very different thoughts about this new human race that is rapidly multiplying. King Inlil wants to send a great deluge to earth to destroy humankind, which he sees as getting out of control. But Inky fights to save the civil civilization he had helped create. In the story, we're told that the God Enki takes aside one of the human beings and tells him to build an arc and to take them to safety. According to the Samarians themselves, there's this other civilization that's pre-flood, and it had all of this knowledge as well. They had writing, they had the wheel, they had mathematics,

they had all these agricultural sciences, too. But the flood wiped out these people. What was left were the Sumerians. After the flood, it was said that the gods imparted specific knowledge and wisdom and teachings to certain Sumerians to go and restart civilization, and this is where the whole Sumerian culture is said to have emerged from. Could the fact that the same account of a great flood appears in both the Hebrew Bible and a Sumerian story written at least a thousand years earlier support the notion that this was a real event? One caused by other worldly visitors? And if so, who were these beings? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining an alternate translation of the Sumerian tablets that reveals incredible and highly controversial details about the Onanaki. New York City

1976. A controversial book is published called The Twelfth Planet, which contains a new translation of ancient Sumerian tablets. Its author, 56-year-old Zechariah Sitchin, is a Sumerian researcher who has spent more than a decade studying the Keneiform writing. Sitchin's translation suggests that the origins of the Sumerian civilization

and their gods, the Anunnaki, are far more profound than mainstream scholars suggest. This is Jason Martel, author of Knowledge Apocalypse. Zachariah Sitchin was in a unique position being raised on the Hebrew Bible, being able to speak ancient languages, and specifically being able to translate Cuneiform script. He was able to deduce the story

and tell us what's the meaning behind a lot of these tablets. This is author Eric von Donakin. My friend, Zacharya Sitchin, it was a brilliant man, and the idea of the Anunaki in his meaning were the teachers from outer space. The Anunakis were extraterrestrial visitors. They were here and they created humans according to their own image.

In Sitchin's interpretation of the Samarian stories, after the flood, the Onanaki returned to the earth, but they start to take a sort of a step away from humanity. In fact, they start to vanish from the story. But they leave behind teachers who instruct humanity in the various arts and sciences and rudimentary knowledge about civilization and how to conduct themselves. And this, according to Sitchin, is the origin of the Samarians.

This is where they got their knowledge. This is why they're the first with all of their discoveries and inventions. And it comes from the Ananaki. While the Sumerians themselves identified the Ananaki as beings who came down from the sky, most scholars interpreted them as fictional characters. But Sitchin claimed that the texts are clearly historical accounts of the extraterrestrials that the Sumerians encountered, And he says they even specify what planet these visitors came from.

Zacharias Sitchin postulates that the Anunnaki were actually ancient astronauts coming from a planet he called Nibiru, a planet that was out of our vision, and that it was on an elliptical trajectory, that it only came by Earth every 3,000 or so years. As Sitchin anticipated, when he introduced the world to his controversial transatlanticism, translation of the Sumerian creation story in the 1970s, the academic community was quick to dismiss it. His critics claimed that a planet with an elliptical orbit like Nibiru could never exist in Earth's solar system. But 40 years later, in 2016, astronomers at Caltech announced that they had found evidence of a new celestial object just beyond Pluto. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist.

The recent discovery by two astronomers at Caltech is incredible. They find evidence that in our solar system, there could be a Planet X that goes around the solar system perhaps one 70 few thousand years in a highly elliptical orbit. While astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of Planet X, some researchers believe its theoretical location in orbit align exactly with what Zechariah Sitchin claimed to find and 40 years earlier in the ancient Sumerian tablets. And another discovery in the 1980s echoed one of his even more profound theories. A pillar of Zachariah Sitchin's hypothesis was his belief that the Onanaki had genetically

altered the human genome around 250,000 years ago. Now we have discovered something quite remarkable. Scientists looking into the human genome discovered a genetic alteration that fused two of our chromosomes into one, very important chromosome around 250,000 years ago, that suddenly unlocked human potential, gave us our human abilities, including the ability to do mathematics, to produce art, to do science. Might the discovery that the human genome underwent a major change 250,000 years ago, helped to validate Sitchin's translation of the cuneiform tablets? Could the Anunaki have played a role in

creating humans as described in the Sumerian text. Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest this also lent support to the notion that human DNA was manipulated by extraterrestrials. It's amazing to see that somewhere this new genetic makeup began, and there is nobody before that that had this. So how did this all happen? A group of extraterrestrials arrived on our planet,

and one of our ancestors, Call it an ape or whatever, it doesn't matter. They took a few cells. They changed the DNA code in the cell. Because of this artificial mutation, we are breaking out of the family tree. This is handed down in Sumerian cune form. It is always a question of translation. How do you look at these things?

Could Zechariah Sitchin's translation be correct? Were the Anunnaki real extraterrestrial beings who helped the Sumerians devaluers? develop their civilization and also taught them about the creation of humankind. And if so, is there any physical evidence to support their stories of alien visitation? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and point to a site that contains the largest megalithic stone blocks ever discovered. Southern Iraq, 2022.

Archaeologists from the British Museum are excavating the ancient site of Gersu when they uncover ancient made of mud bricks. It would soon be determined that these walls were part of two temples built roughly 4,500 years ago to venerate the Sumerian god Din Gursu. They announced the discovery of the Lord Palace of the Kings and the White Thunderbird Temple. Now these are mythical sites that have been looked for for generations. These were only recorded in tablets and text previously. and the whole Thunderbird mythos is related to Ningassu.

Ningasu was a thunderbird. That was like the avatar of this kind of great god. The reason why this temple was constructed is that a king of the local city-state had had a series of dreams about the god Ningursu. The story of the Thunderbird God Nengursu comes from the account of King Gudea. of King Gudea, the same king whose statues were found

at this very site in 1877, discovered alongside these statues were the largest Cunea formed cylinders yet discovered, inscribed by King Gudea himself. Gudea wrote that the giant winged god Nengursu instructed him to build these two temples to honor him. The archaeologists themselves say that this temple was built due to a vision that a man had where a gigantic thunderbird descended from the sky.

And personally, I think that this has to do with extraterrestrials because if you know nothing about high technology and somebody descends from the sky in a vehicle, well, of course you're going to signify a person with wings because they came from the sky. Could it be that King Gudea's account of a giant wing deity was in fact an encounter with some type of aerial vehicles carrying an extraterrestrial visitor.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence that the Sumerians witnessed alien craft coming down from the sky can be found in the epic of Gilgamesh. In the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh encounters the Anunnaki at what's called the landing place.

The landing place is where the gods came to meet with Gilgamesh. In the text, it talks about sort of a ship that goes from here to the heavens. In the ancient world, that's the gods who are transporting in chariots. In the modern world, is that a spacecraft? Is that a rocket ship?

Gilgamesh was watching the gods descending and ascending from the planet. He actually talks about hearing loud sounds and seeing fire and smoke as the gods took off into the heavens. To me, this sounds exactly like a rocket ship. a rocket ship. In his book, the 12th planet, Sumerian researcher Zechariah Sitchin proposed that the landing place described in the epic poem is a megalithic site that can be visited to this day. According to Sitcha, the actual location is Balbeck in Lebanon, where we find this massive

platform that resembles what we would think of as a landing port. Today, most people know Balbeck as being the site of the Roman Temple of Jupiter, built in the 1st century BC. But beneath the temple is a massive stone platform that is believed to have been built thousands of years earlier. It is constructed from megalithic blocks that weigh as much as 800 metric tons or 1.6 million pounds. That platform is incredible because it features some of the largest stones ever carved and created by humans long ago. These blocks are on the fourth level. level up, so somehow they had to be lifted up. And in my opinion, they had a technology imparted to the local population by the exterrestrials.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the story of the landing pad in the epic of Gilgamesh, along with King Gudea's encounter with a giant winged being, strongly suggest that the Sumerian people witnessed flying craft coming down from the sky. And they say the most compelling detail of all is the Sumerian description of the God Nengursu as a thunderbird. When I hear that a giant thunderbird person descended from the sky, I'm like, wait a second, we've heard these stories before. In North America, many First Nation myths begin with thunderbirds.

That thunderbirds existed out of which the so-called kachinas came and the kachinas were the first bringers of knowledge. You have other stories like that, also in ancient India. Imagine you know nothing about technology and then you see a big plane fly over your head. Well, first of all, it looks like a bird. And second of all, it makes a lot of noise, thundering noise. So of course you would call that a thunderbird. And that to me illustrates an example of misunderstood technology. thousands of Sumerian tablets that have been translated and countless stories about the Anunaki and their interactions with humans, could they be the first written accounts of extraterrestrial

encounters? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining what some researchers believe are the remains of an Anunnaki. Southeastern Iraq, 1926. British archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolle undertakes an extensive excavation of the Sumerian city of Orchus. The excavations began to reveal an extraordinary necropolis and as more and more rich funerary goods, pieces of art and jewelry started to come up. It became clear that this was a very important centre and had been since Samarian times. Woolley soon realized that what they had found in the center of ore was a massive cemetery containing more than than 1,800 graves filled with incredible artifacts and riches, including 16 royal tombs. It was very spectacular, fine, and astonished the world. And Willie wrote about it in the press

as these things became clear, and people rushed to get the newspaper to find out the next episode, because it was very dramatic and very exciting. Woolie's team unearth one extraordinary relic after another, including a gold cosmetic container in the shape of a cockle shell, a gold vessel in the shape of an ostrich egg, and the head of a lion made of silver, lapis lazuli, and shell. Woolie's team of archaeologists excavated more than one grave with musical instruments and gold and jewelry. They found this classical Sumerian civilization, a very affluent one.

Orr was first discovered nearly 70 years before Woolsey's excavations when, in 1853, archaeologists unearth a ziggurat and found it inscribed with the name of the ancient city. It was considered an extraordinary find because biblical scholars believed it was the same city of Orr that is mentioned in the book of Genesis and was the home of Abraham. The Bible tells us the story of Abram. Abraham was raised in. in this city of Ur, and this is important, because Abram is considered to be the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike. Because the message of Abram was that there is only one true God.

During Woolie's excavations in 1926, an even more compelling find was made relating to an event described in both the Bible and the Sumerian text, the epic of Gilgamesh. As Woolley and his team dug beneath the burials, they got to a depth of about 64 feet where they found a layer of what appeared to be silt, about 13 feet thick, suggesting that flooding had taken place at this time. And the team dug in other spots, 14 in all, and found the exact same thing in all 14 locations. And Leonard Woolley believed this This was evidence of the Great Flood found in both the Bible and Sumerian texts and that this was a real event.

But of all the discoveries made at Oar, perhaps none are more extraordinary or controversial than a large stone tomb containing the body of a Sumerian queen. Leonard Wully unearthed this fabulous, an incredible tune of Queen Pooabi, which was an astonishing discovery at the time. found her body intact, covered with gold ornaments, and wearing this incredible golden headdress with cylinder seals attached to her body that identified her as this queen. Numerous artifacts found within the tomb identified it as belonging to Queen Pooabi, and researchers believe she was a very important figure based on the staggering number of jewels that were buried with her.

When researcher Zechariah Sitchin examined Pooabi's skull decades later, he determined that, while severely damaged, it displayed some remarkable anomalies. As Zechariah Sitchin investigated the discovery of Queen Pooabi, he found that her skull appeared to be elongated. This led him out a line of speculation that she must have been a Uninaki human hybrid. Her characteristics look almost alien. Was she possibly some type of extraterrestrial? Queen Puwabi's remains are now housed at the London Museum of Natural History.

For years, Zechariah Sitchin implored the museum to test her DNA, but they refused. Unfortunately, mainstream science said, no, this isn't worthy of our time. To me, this seems like, you know, an eye-opener that we have actual remains that could be tested and possibly confirm an extraterrestrial origin. Could the remains of Queen Puabi provide incontrovertible evidence that the Sumerian civilization was the product of alien intervention? Ancient astronaut theorists believe another perhaps even more important question lies in whether this mysterious civilization is much older than archaeologists have ever imagined. Most mainstream historians agree that, according to archaeological evidence, the Sumerians appeared in Mesopotamia around 5,000 BC. But in the Cuneiform texts that have been translated, the Sumerians themselves say that the civilization actually began with their ancestors who lived thousands of years earlier.

In a time before what the epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible describe as, the Great Flood. The origins of the Sumerians is still under scrutiny. Some people have speculated that they may have come from a lost sunken land. Now, this is an intriguing possibility with all the flood myths and so forth. What is quite interesting related to this is the fact that off the coast of Israel, we have the submerged town of Atletian, which dates back to over 7,000 BC. This is a series of stone circle structures, avenues, and communal and domestic buildings.

And so if there was a submerged area, which the Sumerians were said to come from, perhaps we need to look out into the Mediterranean. Do the underwater ruins of Atlet Yam, which date back more than 9,000 years, serve as evidence that the Sumerian stories of a pre-flood civilization are true? Remarkably, even older stone structures have been discovered at the archaeological site of Gobeckley-Tepa, which is located just 400 miles north of ancient Sumer. Gobeckley-Tepai was discovered in 1994 by Professor Klaus Schmitt. the German Archaeological Institute. He started finding huge standing stones, and many of these were carved into human form.

They would have arms on the side of them, the hands that come around to the front. Radiocarbon dating of artifacts unearthed at Gopekli-Tepae suggests the ancient site is over 12,000 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the Sumerians. But some researchers have noticed a curious connection between the two cultures.

Gobeckley-Tepe is a massive complex, and it features the carving of these three handbags that appear above this bird-like creature. And what's fascinating about this is that you can find carvings of similar handbags about 400 miles to the south where the ancient Samarians lived. And there, the handbags are held by these winged figures

called Ananaki. This suggests that there is some previously unknown connection between the Samarians and Gobeckley-Tepe. Maybe this is the answer for where the Sumerians actually came from. Is it possible that the builders of Gobeckli-Tepae are the ancient ancestors of the Sumerians? Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer might be found in the thousands of Sumerian texts that have yet to be translated. Experts estimate that up to 90% of the original texts have been lost,

but there must be a treasure trope still out there waiting to be translated, and they could contain information that will force us to rethink everything we thought we knew about our past. The fact that the Samirians were the first to come up with mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, engineering, our entire human civilization is built on exactly that. And they've received this knowledge from the so-called gods. And to me, these people that came from the sky weren't,

you know, ethereal beings, but exterrestrials, visiting from another planet. Does the discovery of the Sumerians and the recent translations of their ancient clay tablets reveal that humankind and human civilization are the result of alien intervention? And might there be even more astounding revelations about our past contained within the hundreds of tablets that have yet to be deciphered, and the thousands more that may still lie hidden beneath the desert sand? Perhaps it will be the oldest known civilization on Earth that provides the truth about humanity's evolution on this planet and our close encounters with extraterrestrial beings.