1 00:00:03,990 --> 00:00:13,070 static noise effect 2 00:00:13,353 --> 00:00:25,183 mysterious music 3 00:00:30,536 --> 00:00:34,726 I've been a preacher for more than 30 years. I've studied and taught through 4 00:00:34,726 --> 00:00:38,536 the book of Genesis many, many times in churches all around the world 5 00:00:38,536 --> 00:00:42,536 and I've trained pastors in the skills of interpreting texts, 6 00:00:42,536 --> 00:00:46,286 and it's very clear they're not stories about Gods. 7 00:00:46,286 --> 00:00:49,766 They're stories about the powerful ones in the Bible. 8 00:00:49,766 --> 00:00:53,996 And the sky people, the Anunnaki and the Sumerian tablets. 9 00:00:55,826 --> 00:01:08,626 static noise effect 10 00:01:10,604 --> 00:01:14,521 [Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar Nathaniel Schmidt 11 00:01:14,521 --> 00:01:18,964 was fired from his position as Professor of Semitic languages 12 00:01:18,964 --> 00:01:21,564 at Colgate University. 13 00:01:21,685 --> 00:01:26,735 For eleven years, this American University had enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition 14 00:01:26,735 --> 00:01:28,575 in Semitic Languages. 15 00:01:28,575 --> 00:01:34,115 He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac 16 00:01:34,115 --> 00:01:37,355 and other ancient languages besides. 17 00:01:37,418 --> 00:01:42,028 In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of America's leading scholars in the field. 18 00:01:43,377 --> 00:01:46,567 So why, after eleven years of outstanding achievement 19 00:01:46,567 --> 00:01:48,840 was he tried for heresy, 20 00:01:49,768 --> 00:01:53,328 and fired from his tenure in 1896? 21 00:01:53,328 --> 00:01:56,068 Though a devout Christian and a Baptist pastor, 22 00:01:56,084 --> 00:01:58,534 the authorities considered that his recent 23 00:01:58,534 --> 00:02:01,583 theological papers had struck at the very roots 24 00:02:01,583 --> 00:02:03,643 of two world religions 25 00:02:03,873 --> 00:02:06,133 Christianity and Judaism. 26 00:02:07,125 --> 00:02:09,655 What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong 27 00:02:09,655 --> 00:02:12,755 was read the Sumerian and Babylonian 28 00:02:12,755 --> 00:02:16,595 and Assyrian text and notice that they were full 29 00:02:16,595 --> 00:02:20,755 of fascinating parallels. Stories that occurred there 30 00:02:20,755 --> 00:02:25,475 that were uncannily similar to all the stories and beginnings 31 00:02:25,475 --> 00:02:26,373 of the Bible. 32 00:02:26,373 --> 00:02:28,055 Stories like: Adam and Eve 33 00:02:28,055 --> 00:02:30,305 The Fall, Cain and Abel 34 00:02:30,665 --> 00:02:33,955 The Flood, the limiting of human life, 35 00:02:33,955 --> 00:02:36,287 the event of the Tower of Babel, 36 00:02:36,287 --> 00:02:39,577 and Schmidt's work demonstrated that 37 00:02:39,577 --> 00:02:42,987 the Sumerian accounts 38 00:02:42,987 --> 00:02:47,740 and those that follow it from nearly 6000 years ago 39 00:02:47,740 --> 00:02:50,987 where in all probability the source of all those familiar 40 00:02:50,987 --> 00:02:52,940 biblical stories. 41 00:02:52,940 --> 00:02:55,817 Now, that was a problem in the 1890's 42 00:02:55,817 --> 00:02:57,347 because if you think about it 43 00:02:57,347 --> 00:03:00,087 the Church was still reading from the after effects of 44 00:03:00,087 --> 00:03:02,797 Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" 45 00:03:02,868 --> 00:03:04,768 and it is busy putting together 46 00:03:04,768 --> 00:03:06,170 new doctrinal basis 47 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,268 and new doctrines of biblical inherency 48 00:03:09,348 --> 00:03:10,448 to shore up the ship. 49 00:03:10,711 --> 00:03:12,563 So the idea that the Bible 50 00:03:12,563 --> 00:03:15,799 might actually be based on somebody else's stories 51 00:03:16,709 --> 00:03:18,476 was a bit of an embarrassment. 52 00:03:18,476 --> 00:03:19,578 It shouldn't have been 53 00:03:19,578 --> 00:03:22,028 because Judaism and Christianity 54 00:03:22,028 --> 00:03:23,778 both find their roots 55 00:03:23,778 --> 00:03:27,009 in the story of a Sumerian family. 56 00:03:27,249 --> 00:03:30,599 The family of Abraham and Sarah. 57 00:03:30,704 --> 00:03:32,894 Abraham and Sarah grew up and spent 58 00:03:32,894 --> 00:03:35,709 the best part of their lives in Ur of the Chaldees, 59 00:03:35,821 --> 00:03:37,451 a Sumerian culture 60 00:03:37,587 --> 00:03:40,897 and so when they emigrated from there> 61 00:03:40,945 --> 00:03:44,465 It's hardly surprising that they would carry with them 62 00:03:44,465 --> 00:03:46,315 all the stories of beginnings 63 00:03:46,315 --> 00:03:47,902 that they had grown up with. 64 00:03:48,122 --> 00:03:50,992 that they had grown up with. 65 00:03:51,032 --> 00:03:52,313 Of what was to become 66 00:03:52,413 --> 00:03:53,673 their culture 67 00:03:53,822 --> 00:03:55,132 their religion 68 00:03:55,222 --> 00:03:56,742 and their Bible. 69 00:03:57,144 --> 00:03:59,884 And so, it shouldn't be a surprise that in the Bible 70 00:03:59,884 --> 00:04:03,654 we have a summary version of all these stories 71 00:04:03,654 --> 00:04:07,965 that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian texts. 72 00:04:08,235 --> 00:04:10,525 The problem and the shock horror 73 00:04:10,525 --> 00:04:13,312 is that the original versions, 74 00:04:13,312 --> 00:04:18,207 the Sumerian versions of these stories, make no mention of God at all. 75 00:04:19,288 --> 00:04:22,102 In the Sumerian originals, these are stories 76 00:04:22,102 --> 00:04:26,026 of our ancestor's contact with another species. 77 00:04:26,502 --> 00:04:29,312 A species called The Anunnakki. 78 00:04:30,783 --> 00:04:32,763 [Narrator] Could Judaism and Christianity, 79 00:04:32,763 --> 00:04:34,247 familiar stories of God, 80 00:04:34,247 --> 00:04:38,090 really be a retelling of our ancestor's close encounters 81 00:04:38,090 --> 00:04:40,627 with extraterrestrials? 82 00:04:41,172 --> 00:04:47,453 The cuneiform tablets which has fascinated Nathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500. 83 00:04:47,456 --> 00:04:52,650 As colonial powers began to escalate the ancient sites of Mesopotamia. 84 00:04:53,379 --> 00:04:59,329 Over the decades had followed some 200,000 clay tablets were uncovered. 85 00:04:59,649 --> 00:05:03,630 The tablets were adorned with strange etchings or glyphs 86 00:05:03,630 --> 00:05:06,907 made when the clay was soft. 87 00:05:07,046 --> 00:05:11,716 Scholars of the day divided us to the meanings of these markings. 88 00:05:11,716 --> 00:05:15,823 Some believe that the glyphs to be an unknown written language. 89 00:05:15,823 --> 00:05:17,752 Others refuse to accept this, 90 00:05:17,752 --> 00:05:21,172 since the tablets appear to predate any known language. 91 00:05:21,172 --> 00:05:25,565 They presume the markings to be no more than decoration. 92 00:05:27,085 --> 00:05:29,284 And so the tablets were archived, 93 00:05:29,284 --> 00:05:32,955 the secrets were locked away for three centuries. 94 00:05:33,502 --> 00:05:37,282 Until in 1835, 95 00:05:37,282 --> 00:05:42,008 Henry Rawranson arrived. In south western Iran. 96 00:05:42,618 --> 00:05:47,938 Rawranson was a military man. He was employed by the East India Tea Company. 97 00:05:47,938 --> 00:05:51,728 And he was in Iran helping the Shah of Iran to train his troops. 98 00:05:51,728 --> 00:05:55,268 As worth pausing there for a moment because if you thought that 99 00:05:55,268 --> 00:05:59,895 corporations rivaling nations states was something new 100 00:05:59,895 --> 00:06:03,238 take a look at the East India Tea company. 101 00:06:03,268 --> 00:06:06,988 A tea company that's able to move a standing army 102 00:06:06,988 --> 00:06:13,010 around the world and train the armies of nation-states. 103 00:06:13,010 --> 00:06:16,118 That's quite a tea company. 104 00:06:16,118 --> 00:06:22,840 In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't part of quid pro quo for trading rights. 105 00:06:23,027 --> 00:06:27,107 He was there for access to the district of Behistun. 106 00:06:27,107 --> 00:06:32,009 He wanted to find the Behistun inscription 107 00:06:33,273 --> 00:06:37,333 [Narrator] the Behistun inscription was an ancient royal proclamation 108 00:06:37,333 --> 00:06:40,043 carved into a cliff face. 109 00:06:40,344 --> 00:06:47,224 It was written in three known languages Persian, Elamite and Akkadian. 110 00:06:47,224 --> 00:06:51,391 Which was the common language of Mesopotamian cultures. 111 00:06:51,435 --> 00:06:56,645 The inscription expressed all three languages in cuneiform script. 112 00:06:57,892 --> 00:07:03,102 It was the translation key that cuneiform tablets have been waiting for. 113 00:07:03,412 --> 00:07:08,362 The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient cultures was suddenly an open book. 114 00:07:08,502 --> 00:07:12,326 The glyphs were not made decoration after all. 115 00:07:12,655 --> 00:07:13,895 They were banking records 116 00:07:13,895 --> 00:07:15,465 business agreements, 117 00:07:15,465 --> 00:07:16,865 shopping lists, 118 00:07:16,865 --> 00:07:18,288 contracts, 119 00:07:18,288 --> 00:07:19,655 recipes, 120 00:07:19,655 --> 00:07:20,905 inventories, 121 00:07:20,905 --> 00:07:27,310 royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world 122 00:07:28,420 --> 00:07:33,939 It was in these ancient narratives that the source of the bibles familiar stories 123 00:07:34,326 --> 00:07:36,236 began to emarge. 124 00:07:37,268 --> 00:07:41,468 At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt was in good company, 125 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:46,549 He was one of the small number who began confronting us with this new layer of our history. 126 00:07:46,549 --> 00:07:50,964 I should mention just to reassure you that shortly after Colgate university fired him 127 00:07:50,964 --> 00:07:58,384 he did get a new job with Cornell University. and he was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years. 128 00:07:58,384 --> 00:08:00,465 So, he did land on his feet. 129 00:08:00,475 --> 00:08:06,015 His work continued to argue that the cuneiforms reveal that our 130 00:08:06,025 --> 00:08:13,104 earliest history are not about god. They are about a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki 131 00:08:15,081 --> 00:08:22,101 [Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia Sitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts. 132 00:08:22,248 --> 00:08:26,487 He highlighted the clear implications of the Sumerian's stories. 133 00:08:26,505 --> 00:08:32,216 That the Anunnaki were powerful and advanced extraterrestrial species. 134 00:08:32,865 --> 00:08:38,685 Their arrival on planet Earth put them at the top of the terrestrial food chain. 135 00:08:39,395 --> 00:08:44,775 To create a local work force, the Anunnaki used sequences of their own genetic code 136 00:08:45,177 --> 00:08:53,849 to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human, ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters. 137 00:08:54,763 --> 00:09:01,393 Such one argued, the word Anunnaki means "those who came from the heavens to Earth". 138 00:09:01,595 --> 00:09:05,925 A phrase that made clear that their extraterrestrials origin. 139 00:09:06,115 --> 00:09:10,635 Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic. He was not a PHD or a professor. 140 00:09:10,685 --> 00:09:15,384 He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce. 141 00:09:15,404 --> 00:09:19,355 The LSE, I should say, is a pretty august institution. 142 00:09:19,421 --> 00:09:23,681 He wrote at a popular level, let's to say, for a general audience. 143 00:09:23,741 --> 00:09:27,511 And not with the kind of referencing and footnotes 144 00:09:27,511 --> 00:09:31,428 that you'd expect to see in an academic kind of tome. 145 00:09:32,041 --> 00:09:35,761 And academic critics don't like that. They think that´s slack. 146 00:09:35,928 --> 00:09:40,288 Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work. 147 00:09:40,570 --> 00:09:44,280 And that's then their pretext to disregard his contributions 148 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,568 which is an important one. 149 00:09:46,568 --> 00:09:51,539 Now, some writers in the field reject Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki 150 00:09:51,598 --> 00:09:55,018 and they would contend that the word usage 151 00:09:55,048 --> 00:09:58,824 that it simply means nobility or royalty. 152 00:09:58,824 --> 00:10:00,063 the rulers. 153 00:10:01,338 --> 00:10:05,300 I'm not persuaded by that. It's not that that's not true. 154 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:09,885 It's just a very partial answer. It's a very lazy explanation. 155 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,770 It simply doesn't ask enough of questions. 156 00:10:12,770 --> 00:10:16,082 Who were the rulers identified by this word? 157 00:10:16,082 --> 00:10:19,374 Why is that word associated with the rulers? 158 00:10:20,303 --> 00:10:24,393 You see if yo look at the etymology of the word, at it's roots meanings 159 00:10:24,393 --> 00:10:26,649 look at the component parts you have Anu 160 00:10:26,649 --> 00:10:28,298 which means heavens 161 00:10:28,343 --> 00:10:30,503 ki which means Earth. 162 00:10:30,628 --> 00:10:34,098 Anunnaki are those who came from the heavens to the earth. 163 00:10:34,098 --> 00:10:38,142 You can follow the logic ,but even if you didn't have the narrative 164 00:10:38,142 --> 00:10:40,123 imbedded in the word itself 165 00:10:40,185 --> 00:10:43,797 as soon as you read the cuneiforms, the stories themselves 166 00:10:43,797 --> 00:10:47,441 unpack that that's exactly what was going on. 167 00:10:47,441 --> 00:10:51,156 And the glyph that they used to indicate the rulers 168 00:10:51,156 --> 00:10:54,976 who come down from the heavens at the beginning of the story 169 00:10:54,976 --> 00:10:57,654 that glyph simply indicates the sky. 170 00:10:57,902 --> 00:11:01,512 So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens. 171 00:11:01,958 --> 00:11:03,928 The sky people. 172 00:11:08,410 --> 00:11:11,758 [Narrator] Many of the world's oldest mythologies claim 173 00:11:11,775 --> 00:11:15,235 that the governance of human society began 174 00:11:15,268 --> 00:11:21,240 with dominance over human beings, being established by superior beings or gods. 175 00:11:21,775 --> 00:11:26,015 And then the job of rulership is handed over, at a later stage, 176 00:11:26,093 --> 00:11:28,785 to human governors or kings. 177 00:11:28,996 --> 00:11:32,496 Egyptian mythology holds such a narrative. 178 00:11:33,003 --> 00:11:36,073 Similarly, The Bible speaks of King Sol 179 00:11:36,112 --> 00:11:38,632 as the first human king over the people of god. 180 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,160 The Sumerian cuneiforms 181 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,199 also name their first human king Gilgamesh. 182 00:11:47,515 --> 00:11:51,117 To be more accurate, Gilgamesh is a transition king. 183 00:11:52,198 --> 00:11:55,438 A hybrid of human and annunaki. 184 00:11:56,131 --> 00:12:00,351 His name appears on one of the most famous of Mesopotamian artifacts, 185 00:12:00,950 --> 00:12:02,910 the Sumerian King's list. 186 00:12:04,312 --> 00:12:07,872 Among the shopping lists, legal agreements, business contracts 187 00:12:08,003 --> 00:12:10,533 and all the rest of the cuneiform tablets, 188 00:12:10,703 --> 00:12:13,263 There appears what on first inspection 189 00:12:13,353 --> 00:12:15,850 is a dry record of a succesion of kings 190 00:12:15,854 --> 00:12:16,984 of Sumeria. 191 00:12:18,607 --> 00:12:23,052 The most recent entries record reigns of 6 to 36 years. 192 00:12:24,598 --> 00:12:26,718 As we go further back on the timeline 193 00:12:26,728 --> 00:12:30,336 the kings list starts running with some odd looking information 194 00:12:30,435 --> 00:12:31,615 because, out of the blue, 195 00:12:31,615 --> 00:12:33,577 we suddenly read of a dynasty 196 00:12:33,577 --> 00:12:39,489 that lasted 24,510 years, 3 months and 3 and a half days. 197 00:12:39,787 --> 00:12:43,700 Now that precision absolutely befits Sumerian culture 198 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:46,045 because its from Semerian culture that 199 00:12:46,105 --> 00:12:48,934 we get 360 degrees in a circle, 200 00:12:49,326 --> 00:12:51,226 60 seconds in a minute, 201 00:12:51,415 --> 00:12:52,954 60 minutes in an hour, 202 00:12:53,394 --> 00:12:55,764 so the precision doesn't surprise us. 203 00:12:56,757 --> 00:12:59,107 What is odd is that 204 00:12:59,417 --> 00:13:05,926 that dynasty of 24,500 years, 3 months and 3 and a half days 205 00:13:05,926 --> 00:13:12,427 was divided across no more than 23 kings 206 00:13:13,576 --> 00:13:17,716 thats an average range of more than a thousand years each 207 00:13:19,268 --> 00:13:20,788 and its not a one off 208 00:13:20,788 --> 00:13:23,238 the dynasty concluded by the great flood 209 00:13:23,305 --> 00:13:28,705 lasted 241,000 years shared by no more than 8 kings 210 00:13:29,064 --> 00:13:33,184 that's an average range of more than 30,000 years 211 00:13:34,207 --> 00:13:37,099 Now, some have tried to make the dates symbolic 212 00:13:37,261 --> 00:13:41,011 or have interpreted their unit of timedifferently 213 00:13:41,088 --> 00:13:44,817 but that doesn't quite work when its an unbroken record 214 00:13:44,938 --> 00:13:48,368 of 6 to 36 year reigns uh 215 00:13:48,487 --> 00:13:50,797 to 36,000 years reigns 216 00:13:50,867 --> 00:13:52,838 all in the same unit of time 217 00:13:53,045 --> 00:13:55,045 all in the same narrative 218 00:13:55,947 --> 00:13:58,887 the narrative begins with non-human kings 219 00:13:59,167 --> 00:14:01,507 who then hand over to human kings 220 00:14:01,645 --> 00:14:05,255 and this elasticity of the length of their dynasty's 221 00:14:05,536 --> 00:14:09,251 is another suggestion that the non-human kings 222 00:14:09,377 --> 00:14:12,132 are something quite different to juman beings 223 00:14:12,276 --> 00:14:15,616 it's like comparing the lifespan of a human being 224 00:14:15,850 --> 00:14:17,610 with the lifespan of an ant 225 00:14:21,329 --> 00:14:24,019 [Narrator] the king's list is not the only evidence 226 00:14:24,145 --> 00:14:27,203 pointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis 227 00:14:27,933 --> 00:14:30,335 the Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel 228 00:14:30,340 --> 00:14:34,193 speaks of 50 technicians who employ mysterious technology 229 00:14:34,328 --> 00:14:38,438 to dispatch 300 observers to their stations in the stars 230 00:14:40,048 --> 00:14:42,033 right along side the genesis account 231 00:14:42,132 --> 00:14:44,712 the two narratives confirm one another 232 00:14:45,084 --> 00:14:47,164 and paint a vivid picture 233 00:14:47,703 --> 00:14:50,083 Babel, was a stargate 234 00:14:50,180 --> 00:14:54,547 providing the observers rapid access to space stations 235 00:14:55,497 --> 00:14:58,197 The thing that got me into this whole field of research 236 00:14:58,245 --> 00:15:01,215 was an anomalous word in the book of genesis 237 00:15:01,655 --> 00:15:05,765 I've been a preacher for more than 30 years 238 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I've studied and talked through the book of genesis 239 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 many, many times in churches all around the world 240 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and I've trained pastors in the skills of interpreting texts 241 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So I've long known about this anomalous word 242 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Well finally i allowed myself the time to sit down 243 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and really drill into what was going on 244 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Genesis uses two words for god 245 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah 246 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses 247 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in a time, centureis or millenia after all the action described 248 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in the stories of beginnings 249 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, the fact that the word Yaweh appears in those much older stories 250 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that clues us that we're not reading the original version of the stories 251 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The sotries are being retold by someone after the time of Moses 252 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now, there's a broad consensus among biblical scholars 253 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that the current version of the old testament 254 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the Hebrew scriptures was edited or redacted 255 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 sometime in the sixth century B.C.E. 256 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and that the redacter, by putting the name Yaweh 257 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 into these older stories, the stories that 258 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Abraham and Sarah have brought with them 259 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 was telling the reader to regard them as God's stories 260 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 by using the later name 261 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 he's also telling the reader, this is not the original version 262 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Originally, they were Elohim's stories 263 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now that word Elohim is a very interesting word because 264 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it's a plural form word 265 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it often exhibits plural behaviors, "Let us make, 266 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 let us make the humans to look like one of us, 267 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we dont want them to become to much like one of us etc". 268 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The word Elohim often takes plural verb forms 269 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 its sometimes translated as god but in other places 270 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 it gets translated as false gods or demons 271 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or angels or cheiftans or land barons 272 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so why this enormous elasticity in the words meaning 273 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Well again, we have to go back to the roots of the word 274 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and ask why is it used that way and why does it behave like a plural 275 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 When you look at its component parts the word Elohim 276 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 means the powers or the powerful ones 277 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 now when you read genesis translating the word that way 278 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the texts change and suddenly line up with the Sumerian texts 279 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One by one they confirm each others stories 280 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and its very clear they're not stories about gods 281 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they're stories about the powerful ones in the bible 282 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the sky people, the Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets 283 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrarator] but is there any material evidence that 284 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a non-human ruling presence ever occupied planet earth 285 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 one might reasonably ask 286 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Why have no physical remains of Annunaki been found? 287 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 firstly i would note that the more we dig up ancient sites 288 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the greater a diversity of ancient peoples were finding 289 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 if you think about the hobbits that were found in Indonesia 290 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We called them hobbits think the proper name is homoforensis 291 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or the giants of noble county 292 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or the red-haired giants of North America 293 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or the long skull of piraka etc. 294 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There's a great range of people that we're 295 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 beginning to come across as we dig into our ancient past 296 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so how would we know if we found an Anunnaki 297 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 well one obvious possibility is by DNA testing 298 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so if Gilgamesh really was a human Anunnaki hybrid 299 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 then all we have to do is find the royal tomb and DNA test him 300 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 well I believe that's exactly what happened in Iraq 301 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in 2003 a team went in protected by American troops 302 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in 2003 a team went in protected by American troops 303 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and found Gilgamesh's tomb. 304 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fassbender spoke to the BBC you can go on his website 305 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 you can read all about it 306 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 now the officail story is that having located 307 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the probable tomb site 16 years ago we decided not to investigate any further. 308 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Similarly in 1927 the British archeologist Leonard Woolley 309 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 discovered a person known as Queen Puabi 310 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 now she was a high ranking Sumerian leader who lived around 2500 BCE 311 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and they had found her remains 312 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 so agian here's another find which with today's technology 313 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 provides us with the oppurtunity to DNA test 314 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we can now test Sumerian royalty to comfirm 315 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 whether it was entirely human, the result, apparently we've decided not to investigate any further 316 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now what do you make of that? 317 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Wouldn't you want to know?