Periodically, archaeologists find such ancient artifacts that, by their very existence, baffle researchers. Recall at least the ancient Indian manuscripts, which describe devices that are very similar to spacecraft.
Drawings on some tombs of Ancient Egypt, as well as artifacts from Central America, also raise a lot of questions. But today we will talk about a completely different civilization - the ancient Sumerians.
Currently, this civilization is considered the most ancient and one of the most highly developed. They built many cities on the territory of Mesopotamia. Now all these ruins are in the south of Iraq. By the third millennium BC, the Sumerian state consisted of more than 12 large settlements.
What is noteworthy - in each city they worshiped their own separate god. At the beginning of the last century, archaeologists discovered an ancient Sumerian artifact that greatly changed the attitude of researchers towards this people. This is the so-called "List of Sumerian Kings".
It is an ancient prism with text on it. Found this artifact on the ruins of the ancient city of Nippur. The first person to see him was the American explorer Hermann Hilprecht.
But in fact, this is not an artifact, but a whole group of artifacts, and the American was the person who managed to find the first fragment. Later, more than a dozen similar artifacts were found, and the content of the text on them was almost identical. After analyzing the finds, archaeologists have established that they are about 4000 years old.
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Cuneiform was inscribed on each face of the prism. There was a hole in the center of the prism. Presumably, in ancient times a wooden rod was inserted there for more convenient reading of the prism. In our time, the prism is located within the walls of one of the English museums.
Gradually, the researchers managed to decipher all the records. As it turned out, there is not just a list of all the ancient Sumerian kings, but also a detailed description of the historical events of that time. And not only about them.
Records echo the stories from the Bible, telling about the Great Flood. Salvation of Noah and other biblical events. Some researchers believe that the prism itself and the discovered tablets are fragments of a single source. In which there is information about the entire history of the Sumerian civilization.
If the records on the prism do not lie and archaeologists have deciphered everything correctly, then the Sumerians could have existed for tens, and even hundreds of thousands of years. After calculating the reign of all the above kings, the researchers came up with a shocking figure - more than 240,000 years.
However, official science urges not to strongly believe the information written on these artifacts. After all, there is one oddity here - the names of the Sumerian rulers for some reason coincided with the names of the heroes of Babylonian legends and epics.
Where could such a discrepancy come from? It was immediately suggested that the ancient authors had confused something with the dates. And official science believes that the ancient Sumerians wanted in this way to show the infinity of the power of their rulers - they say, he ruled much less, but the Sumerians associated unlimited power with unlimited time.
Perhaps the timing was also exaggerated in order to show the enormous contribution that the rulers made to the life of their people and state.
But there is another version - it is believed that after the Great Stream, the terms of the kings' reign began to decrease significantly and, as a result, came to quite real ones.
Some researchers believe that the ancient Sumerians had their own point of reference for time - they counted time differently. And such terms of government can be considered normal only in their "coordinate system". But this is only a version, and an unproven one.
Another mystery is why the plots on the Sumerian artifacts repeat the plots of the Holy Scriptures? Does the Bible have anything to do with this ancient people?
After analyzing the Bible and the Sumerian texts, scientists have determined that in both cases they are talking about some kind of large-scale planetary catastrophe, as a result of which most of humanity died. And this catastrophe happened about 12,000 years before the appearance of Christ.
There are much more ancient stories on the Sumerian artifacts telling about the expulsion of Adam, the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, there are significant differences - the Bible indicates that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by the Lord himself, and the Sumerians wrote that the cities were destroyed by strange warlike creatures that descended from the mountains.
It is clear that the Bible has been translated and rewritten many times. Perhaps the true meaning of those events was lost. However, the strange thing is that the information from the Bible coincides in many respects with the texts on the Sumerian artifacts.