Long-form investigations
The sources, versus the myths.
Each dossier takes a question people actually ask about Mesopotamia and answers it the only honest way: tablet by tablet, photograph by photograph, with the scholarly reading and the modern legend side by side.
13 July 2026 · Anunnaki · Nibiru · ancient astronauts
The Mesopotamian Sky: Anunnaki, Nibiru and “Ancient Astronauts”
What 102,000 cuneiform tablets actually say about gods descending from heaven, strange stars, and beings from elsewhere — every claim checked against the primary sources.
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28 August 2026 · the Flood · Gilgamesh · Ziusudra
The Flood Before Noah: Ziusudra, Utnapishtim and the Tablets Behind Genesis
A Mesopotamian flood story was written down more than a thousand years before Genesis. Here are the actual tablets — Ziusudra, Atra-hasis, the Gilgamesh Flood Tablet — and the 107 places the word “flood” really appears in the translations of a 102,000-tablet corpus.
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1 September 2026 · cuneiform · how to read cuneiform · oldest writing
How to Read Cuneiform: What 102,246 Tablets Actually Say
Cuneiform is not a language, and it is mostly not literature. A guided reading of the world’s oldest writing — sign by sign, from a 3300 BCE receipt to a hymn — with the corpus counted: 60.9% of the classified tablets are accounting, 5.5% are literary.
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