SHOCKING Sumerian Roots of the BIBLE | DOCUMENTARY

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Most historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 – c. 3300 BC by a West Asian people who spoke the Sumerian language (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc., as evidence), a non-Semitic and non-Indo-European agglutinative language isolate.

The Blau Monuments combine proto-cuneiform characters and illustrations of early Sumerians, Jemdet Nasr period, 3100–2700 BC. British Museum.
Others have suggested that the Sumerians were a North African people who migrated from the Green Sahara into the Middle East and were responsible for the spread of farming in the Middle East. However, with evidence strongly suggesting the first farmers originated from the Fertile Crescent, this suggestion is often discarded. Although not specifically discussing Sumerians, Lazaridis et al. 2016 have suggested a partial North African origin for some pre-Semitic cultures of the Middle East, particularly Natufians, after testing the genomes of Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture-bearers.

Alternatively, a recent (2013) genetic analysis of four ancient Mesopotamian skeletal DNA samples suggests an association of the Sumerians with Indus Valley Civilisation, possibly as a result of ancient Indus–Mesopotamia relations. According to some data, the Sumerians are associated with the Hurrians and Urartians, and the Caucasus is considered their homeland.

A prehistoric people who lived in the region before the Sumerians have been termed the "Proto-Euphrateans" or "Ubaidians", and are theorized to have evolved from the Samarra culture of northern Mesopotamia. The Ubaidians, though never mentioned by the Sumerians themselves, are assumed by modern-day scholars to have been the first civilizing force in Sumer. They drained the marshes for agriculture, developed trade, and established industries, including weaving, leatherwork, metalwork, masonry, and pottery.


Enthroned Sumerian king of Ur, possibly Ur-Pabilsag, with attendants. Standard of Ur, c. 2600 BC.
Some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language; they think the Sumerian language may originally have been that of the hunting and fishing peoples who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (Early Dynastic I). Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians lived along the coast of Eastern Arabia, today's Persian Gulf region, before it was flooded at the end of the Ice Age.

Sumerian civilization took form in the Uruk period (4th millennium BC), continuing into the Jemdet Nasr and Early Dynastic periods. The Sumerians progressively lost control to Semitic states from the northwest. Sumer was conquered by the Semitic-speaking kings of the Akkadian Empire around 2270 BC (short chronology), but Sumerian continued as a sacred language. Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Third Dynasty of Ur at approximately 2100–2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use for some time.

The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been one of the oldest cities, where three separate cultures may have fused: that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians.
Epic of Gilgamesh, ancient Mesopotamian odyssey recorded in the Akkadian language about Gilgamesh, the king of the Mesopotamian city-state Uruk (Erech).

The fullest extant text of the Gilgamesh epic is on 12 incomplete Akkadian-language tablets found in the mid-19th century by the Turkish Assyriologist Hormuzd Rassam at Nineveh in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (reigned 668–627 BCE). The gaps that occur in the tablets have been partly filled by various fragments found elsewhere in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. In addition, five short poems in the Sumerian language are known from tablets that were written during the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE; the poems have been entitled “Gilgamesh and Huwawa,” “Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven,” “Gilgamesh and Agga of Kish,” “Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld,” and “The Death of Gilgamesh.”
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All Comments (21)
  • @jasonhilliker2266
    The problem is some present day groups believe these myths provide them some special status and rights to land
  • @newyorka7
    You were spot on with all your information! I’ve been studying middle eastern religions (kush, Egypt, sumeria etc) for a while now and the only thing I believe you’ve misunderstood was the fact that the israleites weren’t simply another civilization in Mesopotamia who adopted ideas and narrative from the phonecians/Canaanites but rather they were the Canaanites/phonecians who started their own culture outside of the traditional Canaanite/Phonecian culture and deified their neighbors for not assimilating. Hence why they spoke the same language, had the same names for gods, had the same religious mythology etc. Also, Yahweh was one of the 70+ sons of El as referenced to in the table of nations in genisis which mentions the 70 nations of el and the ugarritic texts describes El as the father deity for 70+ sons. Also asherah was worshipped as Yahweh’s consort as well in early Israelite times.
  • @parisdebono
    excellent video - thank you for all the great work, study, time, passion and energy you put into this
  • @harveywabbit9541
    Solomon's Temple, consists of Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio. His "palace" is the 12 constellations (winter solstice to winter solstice). The 13 years of construction is 13 lunar months which = 12 solar months. Solomon (the sun) builds the temple of god every year and the first month (not year) is April where we find the Bull of Heaven. January = first month of solar year (Aquarius), February/Pisces = 2nd month, March/Aries = 3rd month, and April = 4th month and annual beginning of the construction of Solomon's temple The sacred year begins and ends at the spring equinox and the secular year begins and ends at the autumn equinox. The solstices mark the solar years.
  • @amyeck3870
    All the syncing of gods and goddesses gets so confusing! I’m glad I got you and a few other channels I can pull up and try to untangle!❤
  • @Skymannot6939
    So wonderful to listen to you, I’m humbled by the depth of your knowledge of Middle East, Greek and Roman mythology stories and how they shaped our current religious beliefs. Thank you.
  • @cecileroy557
    So well done!! I am enjoying this immensely!!!! Thank you!!
  • @justarshad8354
    Great work Neal! Keep going son! Enjoy through and through the whole vid..❤
  • @auld_boy
    Nice work and beautiful visuals for the presentation Neal 👌
  • @cpnlsn88
    Thank you. Very well put togehter. needs a few rewatchings!
  • @billwhite9701
    What a Great presentation of information that needs to be shared. Thank you
  • @Zebachi
    This was a very informative video, nice work.
  • @caelumsgreyman
    Thank you for sharing your understanding of this history
  • @ADEpoch
    A really well made video, and a persuasive set of facts.