Secrets, decoded carefully
Claim vs. evidence
Supported: cuneiform began with administration
The earliest writing is dominated by quantities, commodities, people, and institutional accounting—not hidden cosmic revelations.
Unsupported: the Anunnaki were space travelers
Ancient texts present them as deities. No accepted Sumerian text describes genetic engineering, spacecraft, or an extraterrestrial planet called Nibiru.
Supported: flood traditions existed
Sumerian and later Akkadian works preserve flood narratives. Similarities to later traditions are historically important, but do not by themselves prove one simple line of copying.
Misleading: every cuneiform tablet is Sumerian
Cuneiform was used for many languages over roughly three millennia. The famous Gilgamesh Tablet XI and Ea-nasir complaint are written in Akkadian, not Sumerian.
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