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
