The Sumerian Tablet That Says the Tree of Life Was a Machine — And Describes What It Is For

Watch more videos HERE ⇢    • Lost Archives   A man stood in the dirt of northern Iraq in the eighteen forties, staring at a tree he could not explain. Winged figures on each side. A strange object in their hands. Everyone calls it the sacred tree and moves on. But the Tree of Life was carved into clay long before Genesis, and the way the old scribes wrote about it does not sound like worship. It sounds like something being run. Here is what they said it produced, and why the answer got buried. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Picture They Named And Walked Past 1:39 - The Palace At Nimrud And The Winged Sages 2:49 - What The Apkallu Holds In Its Hand 4:46 - The Written Tree In Gilgamesh 6:00 - The Plant Named "The Old Man Becomes Young" 7:19 - George Smith And The Older Flood Story 8:04 - Why No Tablet Says "Machine" 9:52 - What The Source Produced 10:12 - Oannes, The Fish-Bodied Teacher 14:34 - Why It Was Renamed A Sacred Tree #AncientHistory #ForbiddenHistory #Mesopotamia #Sumerian #TreeOfLife #Gilgamesh #Apkallu #Anunnaki #LostCivilizations #AncientAliens #AncientMysteries477 characters, inside the range. SOURCES: → ancienttexts.org, Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI. The plant of life, the boxthorn description, stones tied to the feet, the line "opened a conduit to the Apsu," and the plant's name. → en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh and /wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth. The snake stealing the plant and shedding its skin, and the Apsu as the freshwater deep tied to Enki. → metmuseum.org, Relief panel from Nimrud. Winged figures flanking the stylized sacred tree in Ashurnasirpal's Northwest Palace. → artgallery.yale.edu, human headed genie watering the sacred tree. Apkallu meaning "sage," the figure reaching for the cone with a pail in hand. → brooklynmuseum.org, apkallu fertilizing the sacred tree. The pollinating reading, the genii as apkallu, and the Standard Inscription running across the panels. → artmuseum.princeton.edu, relief of a winged genie. The pinecone shaped vessel and bucket used to sprinkle holy water, and the apkallu flanking the king or the tree. → worldhistory.org, Apkallus of the North West Palace and the Nimrud Ivories. The cone and bucket, the "Sacred Tree or Tree of Life" label, and the framing that the dig uncovered a civilization older than the first biblical books. → en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurnasirpal_II. Layard excavating Kalhu in the eighteen forties, the Northwest Palace, the reign of roughly 883 to 859 BCE, British Museum holdings. → britannica.com and isaw.nyu.edu and kimbellart.org. Layard's 1845 start at Nimrud, mistaking it for Nineveh, confirming the date and the palace. → spokenpast.com, satyori.com, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apkallu, and timelessmyths.com. The seven antediluvian sages, Enki/Ea creating them in the Apsu, and Oannes the fish sage preserved by Berossus around 290 BC.