firstly, ignore the use of the word species here. Secondly, insectoids used hive minds extensively during the Carboniferous. this is important new information.
This is one more transmission of antidiluvian knowledge, quite similar to genesis.
The hard part is grasping the translation transitions taking place ,but it is mostly from high level into a Bronze Age lexicon and back out. so not completely impossible.
It literally tells us that neanderthals deminished and died out. We suspected as much but had zero confirmation. This is unexpected confirmation. survivals may still exist only because we have exactly one report. bigfoot is doing much better with the same constraints.
all this tells us that sumarian Text was informed by access to antidiluvial records and all of it needs to be taken seriously.
As I have posted ,Genesis is a translation from an antidiluvial text created on the heels of the pleistocene nonconformity and we also include the kolbrin Bible as well. both provide an extensive survival report that conforms to a craft leaving and then returning with repopulation support and materials. Think UFO the size of a football field. Think 2000 year stand by some place else besides on Earth. This will soon be possible and mankind certainly understood what was coming.
Ages are described accurately and this cannot be luck.
The Sumerian Tablet Listing 5 Species That Existed Before Humans — And How Each One Ended
0:02Pennsylvania pulled a clay tablet
0:04slightly larger than a man's hand from
0:06the excavation trenches at Nepur. It was
0:09cataloged as CBS 10673,
0:13packed into a crate with several hundred
0:15other fragments and shipped to
0:16Philadelphia where it sat in the
0:18basement of the Pen Museum for over 60
0:20years. Classified as a cosmogonic
0:22[music] fragment, Old Babylonian copy,
0:25partial text. The first partial
0:28translation was attempted in 1956 by
0:30Samuel Noah Kramer, the same Kramer who
0:33spent decades assembling Sumerian myths
0:35from shattered pieces scattered across
0:3720 museums worldwide. He translated the
0:40upper third, assigned it to the category
0:42of creation narratives and moved on to
0:44better preserved material that he
0:46considered more urgent. The lower two/3s
0:49of CBS 10673
0:51covered in dense cuniform script
0:53arranged in two tight columns with
0:55unusually small sign spacing remained
0:58untransated until 2004. [music]
1:01No one prioritized it. No one had reason
1:03to.
1:06When a team at the Oriental Institute in
1:08Chicago finally worked through the full
1:10text, what they found did not match
1:12Kramer's classification.
1:14The tablet does not describe the
1:15creation of humanity. It describes what
1:18existed before humanity. Five distinct
1:21species, each named with its own
1:23Sumerian compound term, each given a
1:26physical description, a function, and a
1:28duration of existence. And for each of
1:31the five, the tablet provides a specific
1:33mechanism of destruction. Not a single
1:36flood, not generic divine wrath. five
1:40separate extinction events described
1:42with structural detail that appears
1:43nowhere else in the surviving Cuneaform
1:45corpus. The tablet has been on
1:48restricted access since 2011. The stated
1:51reason is conservation. The conservation
1:54work has not produced a single published
1:56status report in 14 years. If you are
1:58here because the artifacts, the
2:00restricted tablets, the parts of the
2:02archaeological record that do not fit
2:04the textbook version of history interest
2:06you, subscribe.
2:09We investigate one of these cases every
2:12week. Now, let me show you what the
2:14tablet actually says about the five
2:15species that came before us.
2:19The tablet opens with a period the
2:21Sumerianss called Naml Gala, a phrase
2:23Kramer rendered as the age of lordship.
2:26The 2004 team proposed an alternative.
2:30Namlu gala functions not as a
2:32description of governance but as a
2:34temporal marker. An era defined not by
2:36who ruled but by what lived. The first
2:39species is called olu which breaks down
2:42into ool meaning primordial and doo
2:45meaning to shape. The ool du are
2:48described as beings of the water and the
2:50stone who moved without legs and built
2:52without hands. Their size is given in
2:54Sumerian architectural units suggesting
2:57organisms between 3 and 5 m in length.
3:00Their function is stated plainly. They
3:03prepared the ground. The mechanism of
3:05their ending reads, "The sky burned and
3:08the waters turned to powder."
3:10A 2016 paper in the proceedings of the
3:13National Academy of Sciences documented
3:16chemical signatures at the Peran Triacic
3:18boundary 252 million years ago, the
3:22largest mass extinction in Earth's
3:23history.
3:26The signatures indicated extreme
3:28atmospheric heating and ocean
3:29acidification so severe that marine
3:32carbonate structures dissolved. The
3:35waters turned to powder is not poetic
3:37metaphor. It is what happens to a
3:39calcium carbonate ocean under
3:41catastrophic acidification.
3:43The second species, Guirgal, translates
3:46as great boned form. They walked on the
3:48land the Udu had prepared, consumed
3:51vegetation, and their bones were as the
3:53pillars of a temple. Their ending came
3:56through the fire from the outer
3:57darkness, a grammatical construction the
4:00Sumerians reserved specifically for
4:01events originating beyond Earth's
4:03atmosphere. The Cretaceous Paleogene
4:06extinction 66 million years ago, a
4:09bolide impact, fire from the outer
4:12darkness. And the species it destroyed,
4:15great boned vegetation consumers whose
4:17skeletons were as temple pillars, bear a
4:20resemblance to sorapod dinosaurs that is
4:22difficult to attribute to coincidence.
4:25Two species, two extinctions,
4:29both described by people who had never
4:31seen a fossil.
4:33The remaining three entries maintain the
4:35same pattern. And the fifth one is the
4:37most disturbing of all.
4:40The third species is designated ashagar,
4:43a compound that has generated more
4:45disagreement than any other term on the
4:47tablet. Ash means singular. Mei refers
4:51to the divine laws governing reality.
4:54Gar means to place. Together the ones
4:57who set the singular law. They are
4:59described as small, numerous, dwelling
5:02in structures built from the earth
5:03itself, operating as a collective rather
5:06than as individuals. The scribe uses a
5:09phrase with no parallel in any other
5:10Sumerian text. They thought with one
5:13body. Individual cognition expressed
5:16through collective behavior. But the
5:18significant element is their
5:19destruction. The breath of the world
5:22changed and the ashmagar could not
5:24change with it. Their structures
5:25endured, but the builders did not.
5:28Paleontologists studying the late
5:30Carboniferous period have documented
5:32exactly this.
5:34Atmospheric oxygen levels reached 35%
5:38supporting arthropods of extraordinary
5:40size, dragon flies with 70 cm wingspans,
5:44millipedes over 2 m long, scorpions the
5:47size of dogs. These organisms built
5:50extensive burrow networks across
5:52multiple continents. When oxygen levels
5:54crashed during the transition to the
5:56perian, their passive tracheal
5:58respiratory systems could not function.
6:01The breath of the world changed. Their
6:03trace fossils survived. The builders did
6:06not. A Sumerian scribe writing around
6:091800 B.CE described an extinction
6:12mechanism that modern paleontology would
6:14not formally document until Robert
6:16Burner's atmospheric oxygen models at
6:19Yale in the 1990s.
6:21The scribe did not have isotope analysis
6:23or sediment cores. He had a tradition
6:26that told him a species had once
6:28breathed differently and died when the
6:30air betrayed them. The question is not
6:32whether this correspondence is real. The
6:35question is where the tradition came
6:37from.
6:39The fourth entry introduces Lunaur, a
6:42compound that translates as the near
6:44humans of the other land. The physical
6:47description is the most detailed on the
6:49tablet. The Luna Kurr walked upright,
6:52used stone tools, wore animal skins, and
6:55made sounds that carried meaning but
6:57were not speech. They were stronger than
6:59humans with thicker bones and skulls
7:01that sloped where ours are flat. They
7:04lived in caves. They buried their dead,
7:06and they existed alongside the earliest
7:08humans for many counted seasons before
7:11they disappeared. Their ending has no
7:13catastrophe. The tablet says simply that
7:16the new ones came and the Luna curr grew
7:18fewer and fewer until the last of them
7:21slept and did not wake. In 2010, Svante
7:25Pabo at the Maxplank Institute published
7:27the first Neanderthal genome.
7:30Neanderthalss coexisted with modern
7:32humans for approximately 5,000 years.
7:35They used tools, wore skins, buried
7:38their dead with apparent ritual intent.
7:41Their bones were denser. Their skulls
7:44featured pronounced brow ridges and a
7:46sloping posterior cranium. They
7:48communicated using a vocal apparatus
7:50that lacked the descended larynx,
7:52enabling full human speech. They made
7:55sounds that carried meaning but were not
7:56speech. Their populations declined
7:59gradually as modern humans expanded into
8:01their territories. The last known groups
8:04survived in southern Iberia until
8:06approximately 40,000 years ago. They
8:09grew fewer and fewer until the last of
8:11them slept and did not wake. The
8:13Sumerianss emerged around 4,500 B.CE.
8:17The Neanderthalss disappeared around
8:1940,000 years ago, a gap of 35,000 years.
8:23No oral tradition survives that span
8:25without written records. And yet CBS
8:2910,673
8:31describes a species matching the
8:33Anderthalss in every particular the
8:35tablet addresses. [music] anatomy,
8:37behavior, tools, communication, and the
8:40exact demographic pattern of their
8:42decline.
8:44Either the scribe invented a description
8:46that aligns perfectly with a hominin
8:48species he could not have known about,
8:50or the information came from a source
8:52that preserved knowledge across a time
8:54span that should have erased it
8:56completely.
8:58The fifth entry is the shortest and the
9:01[music] most difficult. The species is
9:03designated an shaga, those of the inner
9:06heaven. The physical description is
9:08almost absent. Instead, the text
9:10describes capabilities. The anshaga knew
9:13the counting of all things. They built
9:15structures that moved the stars in their
9:17vision. They spoke across distances
9:19without sound. And they held the mi, the
9:22divine laws, not as gifts from the gods,
9:25but as possessions earned through their
9:27own understanding. This is the only
9:29species on the tablet described as
9:31possessing technology, not tools,
9:34technology. And the mechanism of their
9:36destruction is not environmental.
9:38[music] The text says the anaga reached
9:41for the fire of the gods and the fire
9:42consumed them. They burned from within
9:45and the land they stood on became glass
9:47and the water they drank became poison
9:50and their children were born twisted for
9:52seven generations until none were born
9:54at all.
9:56The 2004 translation team published this
9:59passage with a [music] footnote that has
10:00been cited more than any other element
10:02of their work. The footnote reads, "The
10:05description is consistent in its
10:07structural elements with the known
10:08effects of ionizing radiation exposure
10:11on biological populations, [music]
10:13including acute radiation syndrome,
10:16environmental vitrification, water table
10:18contamination, and multigenerational
10:21terratogenic effects leading to
10:23reproductive failure.
10:25In 2005, a geological survey in
10:27Rajasthan documented deposits of fused
10:30silica glass in strata dating to
10:33approximately 2,000 BCE.
10:36The chemical composition did not match
10:38meteorite impact signatures. The trace
10:40element ratios were closer to trinitite,
10:43the glass created at the Trinity nuclear
10:45test in 1945, than to any natural
10:48formation. The anaga are the species on
10:51CBS 10673
10:53that most closely resembles humanity.
10:56Technological, mathematical, ambitious,
11:00destroyed not by an external force but
11:02by their own achievement.
11:05The tablet does not say whether we are
11:07the same species returning or a new
11:10attempt. It simply records what happened
11:12to the last civilization [music]
11:14that reached the level we are
11:15approaching now.
11:18Five species, five extinctions, each
11:21described in language that maps onto a
11:23real event in Earth's biological
11:25history. The correspondences are
11:28structurally specific. Marine organisms
11:30destroyed by ocean acidification.
11:33Large terrestrial fauna destroyed by
11:35boli impact. Giant arthropods destroyed
11:38by atmospheric oxygen collapse. Near
11:41humans gradually replaced by modern
11:42humans. A technological civilization
11:45destroyed by its own fire. The order on
11:48the tablet does not follow strict
11:50chronological sequence. The oxygen crash
11:52preceded the Peran Triacic event, but
11:55the tablet lists them in reverse. This
11:57has been used as an argument against the
11:59correspondence, but independent
12:01researcher Daniela Morasini in a 2019
12:04paper accepted for conference
12:06presentation at the European Association
12:08of Archaeologists and then withdrawn
12:10before delivery under unexplained
12:12circumstances argued that the tablet is
12:15organized not chronologically but
12:17hierarchically. Each species is more
12:20complex than the last.
12:23Water creatures, land creatures,
12:26collective builders, near humans,
12:28technological civilization, a ladder of
12:31increasing sophistication, each rung
12:33destroyed by a different mechanism,
12:35building toward one implicit question
12:37the tablet never explicitly asks, but
12:39that its entire structure makes
12:41unavoidable. If every species before us
12:44was destroyed, what destroys us? The
12:47fifth entry answers it. The fire of the
12:49gods is not punishment. It is not
12:51judgment. It is a threshold. A
12:54technological milestone that every
12:56sufficiently advanced species eventually
12:58reaches. And that according to the
13:00record preserved on this single clay
13:02tablet in a Philadelphia basement, none
13:04has survived. The scribe at Nepur did
13:07not editorialize. He did not warn. He
13:10simply documented what his tradition
13:12told him had happened five times before
13:14and arranged it in the only order that
13:16mattered, the order of what each species
13:18was capable of when it died.
13:22CBS 10,673
13:25was placed on restricted access in 2011,
13:297 months after the full 2004 translation
13:32was first cited in a popular science
13:34publication. A New Scientist article
13:36that drew attention to the extinction
13:38correspondences and generated
13:40significant public interest. The stated
13:42reason is conservation, but several
13:45details resist routine explanation.
13:47Conservation restrictions typically
13:49limit physical handling while
13:51maintaining catalog visibility. CBS
13:5410673 was removed from the museum's
13:56searchable electronic catalog in the
13:59same 2018 update that removed CBS 8534,
14:03the chromosome tablet held in the same
14:05institution. The accession number exists
14:08in the original 1893 printed ledgers,
14:11but the digital record has been thinned.
14:1414 years is an extraordinarily long hold
14:16for a tablet of this size. The Pen
14:19Museum has conserved tablets in worse
14:21condition within two to three years.
14:23[music] No status report has been
14:24issued.
14:27Formal access requests from three
14:29independent researchers between 2015 and
14:322023 were declined using identical
14:34language. The same sentences, same
14:37phrasing, same institutional template
14:39applied to two tablets that happened to
14:41contain the two most anomalous texts in
14:44the museum's Nepur collection.
14:46A junior member of the 2004 translation
14:49team speaking off the record in 2018
14:52said only that the institutional
14:54response to the tablet's public
14:55visibility had been chilling and that
14:58further work on the text was unlikely to
15:00receive university support. These are
15:03not the words of people who believe they
15:04translated a routine creation myth. The
15:07team leader has not published on
15:09Sumerian cosmogonic material since 2011.
15:12His academic output shifted entirely to
15:14administrative texts and economic
15:16records, the least controversial
15:18category of cuneaifor scholarship. The
15:21pivot was never publicly explained.
15:25CBS 10673
15:27does not answer its own question. It
15:30describes five species, five
15:32destructions, five clearings of the
15:34biological stage, each making way for
15:36something more complex, more capable,
15:39more dangerous. It places humanity at
15:42the end of this sequence, not as the
15:44pinnacle of creation, but as the latest
15:46iteration in a cycle that has repeated
15:48five times before. And it gives the
15:50fifth destruction a cause that is not
15:52geological, not astronomical, not
15:55atmospheric. It is technological,
15:58self-inflicted.
15:59The anaga, the heart of sky beings, had
16:02mathematical knowledge, long-d
16:04distanceance communication, structures
16:06that altered their perception of the
16:08cosmos. If they existed and destroyed
16:11themselves at the threshold described on
16:13the tablet, then we are not pioneers. We
16:16are followers on a path that has been
16:18walked before, approaching a fire that
16:20has burned before. The geological
16:22evidence is thin. Fused glass in
16:25Rajasthan and Libya.
16:28Anomalous signatures in strata that do
16:31not match known natural sources. None of
16:33it conclusive. All of it contested. But
16:36the tablet's description is on the clay.
16:39It has been read. It says what it says.
16:42And it sits in a museum basement in
16:44Philadelphia, restricted, uncataloged in
16:47the digital record, waiting for someone
16:49to ask why a 3,800-year-old scribe
16:52described five mass extinctions with
16:54structural accuracy a modern
16:56paleontologist would recognize, and why
16:59the institution holding this record has
17:01spent 14 years making it harder to see.
17:04The Sumerians did not have carbon dating
17:06or genome sequencing or atmospheric
17:08modeling. They had clay and reads and a
17:12tradition they said came from beings
17:13older than themselves. What they wrote
17:16on CBS 10673
17:18either represents the most extraordinary
17:20coincidence in ancient literature or the
17:23most extraordinary inheritance. The
17:25tablet does not tell us which. It
17:27records what came before and how each
17:30version ended.
17:32And it leaves the sixth ending ours.
17:37If this changed how you think about what
17:39the Sumerianss actually knew, subscribe.
17:42Next week, we are looking at another
17:44tablet from the same Nepur collection.
17:47One that describes not what lived before
17:49humans, but what was done to human
17:51biology after we were created. The video
17:54on screen goes deeper into the
17:56restricted material at the Pen Museum.
17:59Click it. The archive is larger than
18:01they want you to know.
The Sumerian Tablet Listing 5 Species That Existed Before Humans — And How Each One Ended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bumwBvTLgYc
In 1893, a team from the University of Pennsylvania pulled a clay tablet slightly larger than a man's hand from the excavation trenches at Nippur. It was cataloged as CBS 10673, packed into a crate with several hundred other fragments, and shipped to Philadelphia, where it sat in the basement of the Penn Museum for over sixty years, classified as a cosmogonic fragment, Old Babylonian copy, partial text. The first partial translation was attempted in 1956 by Samuel Noah Kramer, the same Kramer who spent decades assembling Sumerian myths from shattered pieces scattered across twenty museums worldwide. He translated the upper third, assigned it to the category of creation narratives, and moved on to better-preserved material that he considered more urgent. The lower two-thirds of CBS 10673, covered in dense cuneiform script arranged in two tight columns with unusually small sign spacing, remained untranslated until 2004. No one prioritized it. No one had reason to.
Null Source investigates CBS 10673, an ancient clay tablet from the University
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0:02Pennsylvania pulled a clay tablet
0:04slightly larger than a man's hand from
0:06the excavation trenches at Nepur. It was
0:09cataloged as CBS 10673,
0:13packed into a crate with several hundred
0:15other fragments and shipped to
0:16Philadelphia where it sat in the
0:18basement of the Pen Museum for over 60
0:20years. Classified as a cosmogonic
0:22[music] fragment, Old Babylonian copy,
0:25partial text. The first partial
0:28translation was attempted in 1956 by
0:30Samuel Noah Kramer, the same Kramer who
0:33spent decades assembling Sumerian myths
0:35from shattered pieces scattered across
0:3720 museums worldwide. He translated the
0:40upper third, assigned it to the category
0:42of creation narratives and moved on to
0:44better preserved material that he
0:46considered more urgent. The lower two/3s
0:49of CBS 10673
0:51covered in dense cuniform script
0:53arranged in two tight columns with
0:55unusually small sign spacing remained
0:58untransated until 2004. [music]
1:01No one prioritized it. No one had reason
1:03to.
1:06When a team at the Oriental Institute in
1:08Chicago finally worked through the full
1:10text, what they found did not match
1:12Kramer's classification.
1:14The tablet does not describe the
1:15creation of humanity. It describes what
1:18existed before humanity. Five distinct
1:21species, each named with its own
1:23Sumerian compound term, each given a
1:26physical description, a function, and a
1:28duration of existence. And for each of
1:31the five, the tablet provides a specific
1:33mechanism of destruction. Not a single
1:36flood, not generic divine wrath. five
1:40separate extinction events described
1:42with structural detail that appears
1:43nowhere else in the surviving Cuneaform
1:45corpus. The tablet has been on
1:48restricted access since 2011. The stated
1:51reason is conservation. The conservation
1:54work has not produced a single published
1:56status report in 14 years. If you are
1:58here because the artifacts, the
2:00restricted tablets, the parts of the
2:02archaeological record that do not fit
2:04the textbook version of history interest
2:06you, subscribe.
2:09We investigate one of these cases every
2:12week. Now, let me show you what the
2:14tablet actually says about the five
2:15species that came before us.
2:19The tablet opens with a period the
2:21Sumerianss called Naml Gala, a phrase
2:23Kramer rendered as the age of lordship.
2:26The 2004 team proposed an alternative.
2:30Namlu gala functions not as a
2:32description of governance but as a
2:34temporal marker. An era defined not by
2:36who ruled but by what lived. The first
2:39species is called olu which breaks down
2:42into ool meaning primordial and doo
2:45meaning to shape. The ool du are
2:48described as beings of the water and the
2:50stone who moved without legs and built
2:52without hands. Their size is given in
2:54Sumerian architectural units suggesting
2:57organisms between 3 and 5 m in length.
3:00Their function is stated plainly. They
3:03prepared the ground. The mechanism of
3:05their ending reads, "The sky burned and
3:08the waters turned to powder."
3:10A 2016 paper in the proceedings of the
3:13National Academy of Sciences documented
3:16chemical signatures at the Peran Triacic
3:18boundary 252 million years ago, the
3:22largest mass extinction in Earth's
3:23history.
3:26The signatures indicated extreme
3:28atmospheric heating and ocean
3:29acidification so severe that marine
3:32carbonate structures dissolved. The
3:35waters turned to powder is not poetic
3:37metaphor. It is what happens to a
3:39calcium carbonate ocean under
3:41catastrophic acidification.
3:43The second species, Guirgal, translates
3:46as great boned form. They walked on the
3:48land the Udu had prepared, consumed
3:51vegetation, and their bones were as the
3:53pillars of a temple. Their ending came
3:56through the fire from the outer
3:57darkness, a grammatical construction the
4:00Sumerians reserved specifically for
4:01events originating beyond Earth's
4:03atmosphere. The Cretaceous Paleogene
4:06extinction 66 million years ago, a
4:09bolide impact, fire from the outer
4:12darkness. And the species it destroyed,
4:15great boned vegetation consumers whose
4:17skeletons were as temple pillars, bear a
4:20resemblance to sorapod dinosaurs that is
4:22difficult to attribute to coincidence.
4:25Two species, two extinctions,
4:29both described by people who had never
4:31seen a fossil.
4:33The remaining three entries maintain the
4:35same pattern. And the fifth one is the
4:37most disturbing of all.
4:40The third species is designated ashagar,
4:43a compound that has generated more
4:45disagreement than any other term on the
4:47tablet. Ash means singular. Mei refers
4:51to the divine laws governing reality.
4:54Gar means to place. Together the ones
4:57who set the singular law. They are
4:59described as small, numerous, dwelling
5:02in structures built from the earth
5:03itself, operating as a collective rather
5:06than as individuals. The scribe uses a
5:09phrase with no parallel in any other
5:10Sumerian text. They thought with one
5:13body. Individual cognition expressed
5:16through collective behavior. But the
5:18significant element is their
5:19destruction. The breath of the world
5:22changed and the ashmagar could not
5:24change with it. Their structures
5:25endured, but the builders did not.
5:28Paleontologists studying the late
5:30Carboniferous period have documented
5:32exactly this.
5:34Atmospheric oxygen levels reached 35%
5:38supporting arthropods of extraordinary
5:40size, dragon flies with 70 cm wingspans,
5:44millipedes over 2 m long, scorpions the
5:47size of dogs. These organisms built
5:50extensive burrow networks across
5:52multiple continents. When oxygen levels
5:54crashed during the transition to the
5:56perian, their passive tracheal
5:58respiratory systems could not function.
6:01The breath of the world changed. Their
6:03trace fossils survived. The builders did
6:06not. A Sumerian scribe writing around
6:091800 B.CE described an extinction
6:12mechanism that modern paleontology would
6:14not formally document until Robert
6:16Burner's atmospheric oxygen models at
6:19Yale in the 1990s.
6:21The scribe did not have isotope analysis
6:23or sediment cores. He had a tradition
6:26that told him a species had once
6:28breathed differently and died when the
6:30air betrayed them. The question is not
6:32whether this correspondence is real. The
6:35question is where the tradition came
6:37from.
6:39The fourth entry introduces Lunaur, a
6:42compound that translates as the near
6:44humans of the other land. The physical
6:47description is the most detailed on the
6:49tablet. The Luna Kurr walked upright,
6:52used stone tools, wore animal skins, and
6:55made sounds that carried meaning but
6:57were not speech. They were stronger than
6:59humans with thicker bones and skulls
7:01that sloped where ours are flat. They
7:04lived in caves. They buried their dead,
7:06and they existed alongside the earliest
7:08humans for many counted seasons before
7:11they disappeared. Their ending has no
7:13catastrophe. The tablet says simply that
7:16the new ones came and the Luna curr grew
7:18fewer and fewer until the last of them
7:21slept and did not wake. In 2010, Svante
7:25Pabo at the Maxplank Institute published
7:27the first Neanderthal genome.
7:30Neanderthalss coexisted with modern
7:32humans for approximately 5,000 years.
7:35They used tools, wore skins, buried
7:38their dead with apparent ritual intent.
7:41Their bones were denser. Their skulls
7:44featured pronounced brow ridges and a
7:46sloping posterior cranium. They
7:48communicated using a vocal apparatus
7:50that lacked the descended larynx,
7:52enabling full human speech. They made
7:55sounds that carried meaning but were not
7:56speech. Their populations declined
7:59gradually as modern humans expanded into
8:01their territories. The last known groups
8:04survived in southern Iberia until
8:06approximately 40,000 years ago. They
8:09grew fewer and fewer until the last of
8:11them slept and did not wake. The
8:13Sumerianss emerged around 4,500 B.CE.
8:17The Neanderthalss disappeared around
8:1940,000 years ago, a gap of 35,000 years.
8:23No oral tradition survives that span
8:25without written records. And yet CBS
8:2910,673
8:31describes a species matching the
8:33Anderthalss in every particular the
8:35tablet addresses. [music] anatomy,
8:37behavior, tools, communication, and the
8:40exact demographic pattern of their
8:42decline.
8:44Either the scribe invented a description
8:46that aligns perfectly with a hominin
8:48species he could not have known about,
8:50or the information came from a source
8:52that preserved knowledge across a time
8:54span that should have erased it
8:56completely.
8:58The fifth entry is the shortest and the
9:01[music] most difficult. The species is
9:03designated an shaga, those of the inner
9:06heaven. The physical description is
9:08almost absent. Instead, the text
9:10describes capabilities. The anshaga knew
9:13the counting of all things. They built
9:15structures that moved the stars in their
9:17vision. They spoke across distances
9:19without sound. And they held the mi, the
9:22divine laws, not as gifts from the gods,
9:25but as possessions earned through their
9:27own understanding. This is the only
9:29species on the tablet described as
9:31possessing technology, not tools,
9:34technology. And the mechanism of their
9:36destruction is not environmental.
9:38[music] The text says the anaga reached
9:41for the fire of the gods and the fire
9:42consumed them. They burned from within
9:45and the land they stood on became glass
9:47and the water they drank became poison
9:50and their children were born twisted for
9:52seven generations until none were born
9:54at all.
9:56The 2004 translation team published this
9:59passage with a [music] footnote that has
10:00been cited more than any other element
10:02of their work. The footnote reads, "The
10:05description is consistent in its
10:07structural elements with the known
10:08effects of ionizing radiation exposure
10:11on biological populations, [music]
10:13including acute radiation syndrome,
10:16environmental vitrification, water table
10:18contamination, and multigenerational
10:21terratogenic effects leading to
10:23reproductive failure.
10:25In 2005, a geological survey in
10:27Rajasthan documented deposits of fused
10:30silica glass in strata dating to
10:33approximately 2,000 BCE.
10:36The chemical composition did not match
10:38meteorite impact signatures. The trace
10:40element ratios were closer to trinitite,
10:43the glass created at the Trinity nuclear
10:45test in 1945, than to any natural
10:48formation. The anaga are the species on
10:51CBS 10673
10:53that most closely resembles humanity.
10:56Technological, mathematical, ambitious,
11:00destroyed not by an external force but
11:02by their own achievement.
11:05The tablet does not say whether we are
11:07the same species returning or a new
11:10attempt. It simply records what happened
11:12to the last civilization [music]
11:14that reached the level we are
11:15approaching now.
11:18Five species, five extinctions, each
11:21described in language that maps onto a
11:23real event in Earth's biological
11:25history. The correspondences are
11:28structurally specific. Marine organisms
11:30destroyed by ocean acidification.
11:33Large terrestrial fauna destroyed by
11:35boli impact. Giant arthropods destroyed
11:38by atmospheric oxygen collapse. Near
11:41humans gradually replaced by modern
11:42humans. A technological civilization
11:45destroyed by its own fire. The order on
11:48the tablet does not follow strict
11:50chronological sequence. The oxygen crash
11:52preceded the Peran Triacic event, but
11:55the tablet lists them in reverse. This
11:57has been used as an argument against the
11:59correspondence, but independent
12:01researcher Daniela Morasini in a 2019
12:04paper accepted for conference
12:06presentation at the European Association
12:08of Archaeologists and then withdrawn
12:10before delivery under unexplained
12:12circumstances argued that the tablet is
12:15organized not chronologically but
12:17hierarchically. Each species is more
12:20complex than the last.
12:23Water creatures, land creatures,
12:26collective builders, near humans,
12:28technological civilization, a ladder of
12:31increasing sophistication, each rung
12:33destroyed by a different mechanism,
12:35building toward one implicit question
12:37the tablet never explicitly asks, but
12:39that its entire structure makes
12:41unavoidable. If every species before us
12:44was destroyed, what destroys us? The
12:47fifth entry answers it. The fire of the
12:49gods is not punishment. It is not
12:51judgment. It is a threshold. A
12:54technological milestone that every
12:56sufficiently advanced species eventually
12:58reaches. And that according to the
13:00record preserved on this single clay
13:02tablet in a Philadelphia basement, none
13:04has survived. The scribe at Nepur did
13:07not editorialize. He did not warn. He
13:10simply documented what his tradition
13:12told him had happened five times before
13:14and arranged it in the only order that
13:16mattered, the order of what each species
13:18was capable of when it died.
13:22CBS 10,673
13:25was placed on restricted access in 2011,
13:297 months after the full 2004 translation
13:32was first cited in a popular science
13:34publication. A New Scientist article
13:36that drew attention to the extinction
13:38correspondences and generated
13:40significant public interest. The stated
13:42reason is conservation, but several
13:45details resist routine explanation.
13:47Conservation restrictions typically
13:49limit physical handling while
13:51maintaining catalog visibility. CBS
13:5410673 was removed from the museum's
13:56searchable electronic catalog in the
13:59same 2018 update that removed CBS 8534,
14:03the chromosome tablet held in the same
14:05institution. The accession number exists
14:08in the original 1893 printed ledgers,
14:11but the digital record has been thinned.
14:1414 years is an extraordinarily long hold
14:16for a tablet of this size. The Pen
14:19Museum has conserved tablets in worse
14:21condition within two to three years.
14:23[music] No status report has been
14:24issued.
14:27Formal access requests from three
14:29independent researchers between 2015 and
14:322023 were declined using identical
14:34language. The same sentences, same
14:37phrasing, same institutional template
14:39applied to two tablets that happened to
14:41contain the two most anomalous texts in
14:44the museum's Nepur collection.
14:46A junior member of the 2004 translation
14:49team speaking off the record in 2018
14:52said only that the institutional
14:54response to the tablet's public
14:55visibility had been chilling and that
14:58further work on the text was unlikely to
15:00receive university support. These are
15:03not the words of people who believe they
15:04translated a routine creation myth. The
15:07team leader has not published on
15:09Sumerian cosmogonic material since 2011.
15:12His academic output shifted entirely to
15:14administrative texts and economic
15:16records, the least controversial
15:18category of cuneaifor scholarship. The
15:21pivot was never publicly explained.
15:25CBS 10673
15:27does not answer its own question. It
15:30describes five species, five
15:32destructions, five clearings of the
15:34biological stage, each making way for
15:36something more complex, more capable,
15:39more dangerous. It places humanity at
15:42the end of this sequence, not as the
15:44pinnacle of creation, but as the latest
15:46iteration in a cycle that has repeated
15:48five times before. And it gives the
15:50fifth destruction a cause that is not
15:52geological, not astronomical, not
15:55atmospheric. It is technological,
15:58self-inflicted.
15:59The anaga, the heart of sky beings, had
16:02mathematical knowledge, long-d
16:04distanceance communication, structures
16:06that altered their perception of the
16:08cosmos. If they existed and destroyed
16:11themselves at the threshold described on
16:13the tablet, then we are not pioneers. We
16:16are followers on a path that has been
16:18walked before, approaching a fire that
16:20has burned before. The geological
16:22evidence is thin. Fused glass in
16:25Rajasthan and Libya.
16:28Anomalous signatures in strata that do
16:31not match known natural sources. None of
16:33it conclusive. All of it contested. But
16:36the tablet's description is on the clay.
16:39It has been read. It says what it says.
16:42And it sits in a museum basement in
16:44Philadelphia, restricted, uncataloged in
16:47the digital record, waiting for someone
16:49to ask why a 3,800-year-old scribe
16:52described five mass extinctions with
16:54structural accuracy a modern
16:56paleontologist would recognize, and why
16:59the institution holding this record has
17:01spent 14 years making it harder to see.
17:04The Sumerians did not have carbon dating
17:06or genome sequencing or atmospheric
17:08modeling. They had clay and reads and a
17:12tradition they said came from beings
17:13older than themselves. What they wrote
17:16on CBS 10673
17:18either represents the most extraordinary
17:20coincidence in ancient literature or the
17:23most extraordinary inheritance. The
17:25tablet does not tell us which. It
17:27records what came before and how each
17:30version ended.
17:32And it leaves the sixth ending ours.
17:37If this changed how you think about what
17:39the Sumerianss actually knew, subscribe.
17:42Next week, we are looking at another
17:44tablet from the same Nepur collection.
17:47One that describes not what lived before
17:49humans, but what was done to human
17:51biology after we were created. The video
17:54on screen goes deeper into the
17:56restricted material at the Pen Museum.
17:59Click it. The archive is larger than
18:01they want you to know.
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