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Images from Göbekli Tepe and other Neolithic sites reflected in Sumerian pictograms and texts (March-May 2025):

Part One. The Pillar and the Snake “The age gap between the archaeological sites and the appearance of the first written words – approximately 5 to 6,000 years (ca.9600 BC to ca. 3500 BC) – might well be seen as an impediment to recovering knowledge of the ancient world through a study of pictographic Sumerian.  However, given the large number of similarly shaped stones shown to have existed in the region, it is quite easily proven that the gap did not involve absence of knowledge of their existence or some element of their function.  Images of similar pillars continued to appear, notably in Anatolia, until well into the 2nd millennium BC. (…)”

Part Two. Pagan Wings and Sailors’ Feet The term ‘pagan’ has long since been tainted with the negative connotation of uncivilised, heathen traditions. It’s given as deriving from classical Latin pagus with the meaning ‘of the countryside’, ‘rural’ and ‘rustic’, and has served as an unsavoury comparison to those new  religions emerging around the beginning of our era. That said, no-one actually knows when the concept of Paganism began or where its name was born – before the Romans’ use of it, that is to say – or what the sounds of it might originally have signified. (…)

Part Three. Land of Milk and Psychedelic Honey I wonder when the Harranians first thought of building their homes in the form of beehives. Perhaps it came to them long after their ancestral neighbours further north first climbed the Pontic Mountains not far from the Black Sea to steal that rare commodity now known to us as ‘mad honey’. Harvesting honey from wild bees that feast on the nectar of a specific species of rhododendron flowers is a tradition that has long existed in just two regions of the world: Turkey and Nepal.5 (…)

Part Four. The Labyrinth and the Travelling Bag The phenomenon of the worldwide bag had already been hotly debated for some time when this enigmatic trio re-appeared atop pillar 43 at Göbekli Tepe. Inevitably, their presence and great age has added an extra dose of fuel to the widespread fire. In 2017, I proposed my own solution – this one entirely justified by the words of a scribe writing in the cuneiform script of the region in which the carved image was found. (…)

Part Five. The Secrets of Man (published May 26th, 2025) The stories of the Argonauts, celestial and earthly sailors, have survived through more than one written source. But would we recognise any of them if their effigies appeared suddenly out of the ground? (…)

Articles posted on the website of Graham Hancock:

Comet Strike according to the Sumerian Texts (Jun 2024)

At the Eleventh Hour – A Sumerian Riddle (May 2023)

The Trouble With Gilgamesh (Nov 2022)

Visions Of An Ancient Sumerian Deer (June 2022)

Lost Stones Of The Anunnaki (Jan 2022)

A Temple Built On Sand – Part 2 (Dec 2021)

A Temple Built On Sand (Oct 2021)

AMA-NITA Mon Amour (Oct 2020)

Before Babel (Feb 2020)

Response to an Archaeologist at Göbekli Tepe (Feb 2018)

The Rustle of Stones (Aug 2016)