In the previous chapter, we talked about the discovery of the first stage of Sumerian civilization from 6500 BC to 3800 BC, and through archaeological excavations, people found that the Sumerians had used clay bricks, copper-headed battle axes and even women's eyeshadows in this place. And the world's first tall building, the first arch, and even the first temple may have come from the Sumerian civilization.
If the Sumerians were really created by the aliens of Nibiru, then they should be the bosses of the earth, how could a civilization blessed by the gods be extinct? It wasn't until I read it again that I found out that it was actually very simple, Sumer did perish as a country, but Sumerian civilization was never extinct, and some people thought that Sumer was destroyed by Babylon.
But in fact, the Babylonian civilization was the continuation of the Sumerian civilization, and finally Babylon was destroyed by the Persian Empire. But did the Persian Empire have nothing to do with sumerian civilization? And it's not just Persia, for a long time Westerners thought that the origins of their civilization came from Greece and Rome.
Map of the Persian Empire
But after a group of Western travelers came to Egypt, they were really frightened.
You can imagine a group of Westerners suddenly coming to Egypt in an environment where there was no Internet or television, and then witnessed the magnificent pyramids of Shuangyan standing in front of them. Then there was a sphinx guarding the pyramid next to them, so you can imagine how they would feel at that time, so when they returned to the West, they immediately spread the shocking picture they witnessed to the entire Western society.
sphinx
This is also why Westerners have always attached great importance to pyramids, unlike our Chinese may think that pyramids are just mysterious, but many Westerners can be said to be obsessed. Because they imagined countless urban legends about the pyramids.
For example, the pyramid may be 10,000 years ago, built by the previous generation of human civilization, or the pyramid is the beacon of the alien spaceship, etc., which is mainly affected by their long history and culture, and the average person can only divergent thinking and think about urban legends under this influence.
But there are some tyrants who are different. In order to understand the truth of the pyramids, even at the expense of war, this person is Napoleon.
In 1798 he invaded Egypt with his troops, but this invasion was markedly different from ordinary wars.
Napoleon not only prepared cannons and soldiers, but also brought 175 scholars from all walks of life and hundreds of boxes of books, as well as research equipment. The purpose was very simple, that is, to study the pyramid, and finally they went deep into the pyramid and got a lot of clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters for research.
It was this invasion that some people rumored that the nose of the Sphinx was bombarded by Napoleon with cannons, but I believe this must be a rumor, because for a person who loves ancient civilization, destroying the Sphinx is equivalent to sticking a knife into his own body, how can he be willing to use cannons to bombard?
They did have very practical discoveries at that time, the most famous is the Rosetta Stone, this stele is very significant, it was made in 196 BC, it is engraved with the ancient Egyptian king Ptolemy V enthronement edict, the stone stele in Greek, ancient Egyptian script and the popular script of the time, with different scripts to engrave the same edict several times.
Rosetta Stone
So this is a great convenience for archaeologists, because in this way the contrast between different languages, they can easily translate the hieroglyphs of Egypt that have been lost for thousands of years. Later, through the interpretation of the text, people found that as early as 3100 AD, Egypt already had royalty and dynasties, so the origin of Egypt was exactly 2000 years earlier than ancient Greece.
Does this make it possible to assume that the entire Western source came from Egypt?
However, this is not the case, through continuous archaeological discoveries, the ancient Greek civilization spread from the Near East through Syria and Asia Minor to the Greek island of Crete, and then through Crete throughout the Entire Western Society. Then its source comes from the Near East, not from Egypt.
For example, the name Crete, which means a walled city, has the same literal meaning in Hebrew in the Near East.
Crete
And this Cretan name also corresponds to the king of Crete in Semitic mythology, everyone may be unfamiliar with the Semitic, at first Sumer was only a few scattered small city-states, they often fought between each other, and later one of the Semitic Sargon kings unified the entire Sumer and changed its name to the Akkadian Empire.
King Sargon
The later Babylonian and Assyrian empires were actually two branches of the Akkadian empire.
Babylon may be familiar to us Chinese, as our textbooks contain an introduction to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
But for our Chinese, the Kingdom of Assyria is generally unfamiliar, and in 1843 an ancient city, Dusarukin, was dug up in Khorsabad in the northern mesopotamian plain.
Dusarukin
At the heart of the city of Dusarukin is the palace of King Sargon II of Assyria, a city built more than 3,000 years ago with defensive walls, gardens, temples, and palaces, all of which were built in just 5 years.
Even more exciting is the discovery of a pyramid called Sigurat, which is slightly different from the Egyptian pyramids, in the shape of a staircase and a temple.
Pyramid model of Sigurat
Archaeologists have also found that the role of people building this pyramid at that time, it is used to provide the gods with stairs to the kingdom of heaven, is it also possible to prove that the Pyramids of Egypt have the same purpose, the construction of the pyramids may be related to the gods and heaven, not the tombs built by the Egyptian pharaohs for themselves, because these pharaohs should not be so stupid to expose their tombs there, is it deliberately waiting for this tomb robber to dig?
There are perhaps two possibilities here:
The first is that the ancient Sumerians often saw nebiru aliens, as gods, fly into the sky every time they boarded a pyramid-like triangular spaceship, so they also wanted to pile a triangle to fly into heaven.
The second possibility is that the pyramid is the pyramid that the ancients helped the gods build the stairs to heaven, whether the pyramid is the parking lot of the spaceship built by the aliens, these aliens as gods, are through the pyramid to board their spaceship, of course, these are just conjectures!
As for the Assyrian Empire, it is mentioned in the Bible that its capital was a city called Nineveh, but after all, it is mentioned in the Bible, and at first people now think that it is just a myth.
But before it was discovered, it was dug up by an Englishman, but no one dared to dig the king's palace. Because there is now a mosque above the ruins of the palace, and this mosque is very prominent, because it is said that the burial under the mosque is their mythical prophet Jonah.
Later, many of the cities of the Assyrian Empire were excavated in the Bible, so it is believed that although the Bible is a myth, some aspects of the content are indeed written according to the real history.
When both the Assyrian Empire and the Babylonian Kingdom existed, although they fought every day, their cultures were actually very similar, for example, their myths were basically the same, but their names were different. One of their hosts is named Azul and the other is Maduk, and one of the things they have in common is that they both speak Akkadian.
But the Assyrians and Babylonians did not create this language and script, and according to many excavated inscriptions, they learned it from another, more ancient source.
This brings us to another very important archaeological discovery, the Assyrian king Balipo, who built a library in their capital Li Wei at that time, and the library happened to be discovered by archaeologists, and more than 20,000 inscriptions were dug out of it, which is simply priceless, because it clearly mentions that the Sumerian king Assyrian Balibal also said on the inscription that he could understand the mysterious Sumerian script left before the Flood era, and later scholars found these inscriptions with a large number of words. It's actually the Akkadian script.
The Sumerian dictionaries were prepared by Assyria and Babylon to facilitate the study of sumerian, so the Babylonian civilization did not perish at all, because they themselves were a continuation of the sketch civilization.
Babylon did not last long, and was later occupied by the monarchs of the Persian Dynasty, but the cultural roots of Persia also came from the early Assyrian and Babylonians.
By excavating the early Persian script, scholars have found that these scripts belong to the same kind of cuneiform script as the writing on the plains of Mesopotamia.
So the country of Sumer is indeed extinct, but what country in the world dares to say that it has not been influenced by the culture of Sumeria.
Archaeological discoveries and studies have shown that there was extensive cultural exchange in Eurasia in the 2nd-3rd millennium BC. The enormous influence of West Asia or the Near East on Europe is universally recognized, and the influence on East Asia is still in the confusion. Li Ji believes that all great civilizations are the result of cultural contact. YinShang culture is a multifaceted synthesis that integrates many different cultural origins, but he does not clearly indicate which cultures are of local origin and which are foreign. He cautionfully concludes his last public lecture by stating: "The burial habits of merchants are probably not The customs of China itself; I doubt that this is the result of contact with the Two Rivers Valley." The Two Rivers Valley was buried two thousand years before the Shang Dynasty. (From the professional magazine "East Asian Antiquities", "Bronze Road: An Overview of Cultural Exchanges between the Ancient West and the East") Zhang Taiyan in the "Book of Lou" original people sixteenth caste seventeen] to prove that Chinese culture came west: such as the "Destiny Calendar", after the Nine-Headed Period of the Emperor of The People, there was the Five Dragon Age, which began to gradually and gradually play. Then the emperor is not his own. Ancient things are obscure, and it is difficult to understand. The monarch is long and four states, so there are four mountains. There are twelve elders, so there are twelve pastors. The people are known as black heads, so they are called Qianshou. The words are like wedges, pretending to be gossip. The clay is a text, so the stele table is planted. Honor Jupiter, so occupy the age. The name Ji Yue ( such as the " Shi Tian " " " The first month is the twelfth name , Babylon also has it ) Therefore, the Chinese caste out of the Gartea, this sign also. " Written during the Han Dynasty and based on ancient myths and legends, the Spring and Autumn Chronicle reveals the mystery: the source of Chinese civilization is in the Sumerian civilization. Fu Xi, or Fu Xi Clan, is the head of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of ancient legends, and the head of the snake. This passage of the "Order of Fortune" means that the people in the Fuxi clan call themselves "black heads", also known as "Qianshou", the words are like wedges, divination and counting, the words are carved on the clay, and wheat is planted. The Sumerians, who called themselves "blackheads", used cuneiform scripts, invented divination, carved the words on clay plates, and then fired them into clay, and the Sumerians were also the first people in the world to grow wheat. The Fuxi clan may have been a sumerian king, or a god in Sumerian mythology. Of course, Zhang Taiyan did not know the Sumerians when he wrote this article, this series of articles was first written in 1894, the latest book was written in 1900, and the Sumerian civilization until 1922 -- 1934, the British archaeologist Woolley led a huge team to the core settlement of the Sumerian civilization in southern Mesopotamia, You, for 12 quarters of large-scale excavations, revealing that the site from a small village before 7000 years ago to gradually become the world's most prosperous civilized city, Sumerian civilization was known to the world.
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Well, that's it for this chapter.
The corresponding urban legend chapter may be relatively small, but it is also an account of the background of the Sumerian civilization.
The next chapter of the gods of heaven and earth is more interesting are all mythological stories, ready to open their minds.