#26 - What Sumerian Tablets Really Say About the Anunnaki | Dr. Mark Weeden

Dr. Mark Weeden takes us through how cuneiform was deciphered, why Sumerian went unrecognised for decades, and what the Mesopotamian texts actually say about the Anunnaki. We also cover the flood myths, Göbekli Tepe, and whether the Hittites really invented iron.

Dr. Mark Weeden: https://ucl.academia.edu/MarkWeeden

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

2:21 - Who is Dr. Mark Weeden

8:47 - How writing began

13:50 - The earliest tablets, seals, and bureaucracy

20:00 - What cuneiform is

24:54 - Behistun: three languages on one rock

36:06 - Hurrian, Urkesh, and the lion inscriptions

39:54 - The Tower of Babel

43:57 - Flood stories

46:50 - Atrahasis and the gods on strike

53:56 - The Anunnaki story & what the texts actually say about the Anunna

1:04:52 - Göbekli Tepe

1:09:22 - Did the Hittites invent iron?

1:22:48 - What is written on Mark's T-shirt?

1:26:52 - Closing and Outro

Resources:

Büklükale glass bottle study (Matsumura): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352338175_A_GLASS_PRODUCTION_CENTRE_IN_CENTRAL_ANATOLIA_BUKLUKALE_IN_RELATION_TO_ALALAKH_AND_MESOPOTAMIA

The Egyptian (1954) video clip that Mark mentions:

https://youtu.be/5y1ovnPT6wI?si=kccuN4siYani4WlT

Cult as a Driving Force of Human History

A View from Göbekli Tepe: https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/cult-as-a-driving-force-of-human-history/

Signlist: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/osl/signlist/Overview/index.html

The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistûn in Persia

by L.W. King and R. Campbell Thompson: https://archive.org/details/the-sculptures-and-inscription-of-darius-the-great-on-the-rock-of-behistun-in-persia/page/n37/mode/2up

Manuel d'épigraphie akkadienne by René Labat: https://archive.org/details/manueldpigraphie0000laba/page/n7/mode/2up

Seals and signs: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/seals-and-signs-tracing-the-origins-of-writing-in-ancient-southwest-asia/B3C2D400F3F80A7A0162D9035C9C2804?utm_source