Sumerian 'sacred code' reveals building instructions echoed in the Bible

The Telegraph via msn ^ | January 2024 | Craig Simpson

[blueplum]

A Sumerian “sacred code” has been deciphered, revealing divinely inspired building instructions echoed in the Bible.

Experts have been puzzled since unearthing the 4,000-year-old statue of a leader called Gudea, which features an architectural plan, an inscription claiming he built a temple commanded to him in a dream, and a “ruler” of undeciphered measurements....

British Museum archaeologists have now cracked the “sacred code” of these mysterious measurements after finding a lost temple in Iraq...Dr Sebastien Rey, director of the British Museum’s project in Iraq, said: “It is like the precise measurement we see in the Bible in a much later period, those of the Arc, or the Temple of Solomon.”

He added: “This has taken 140 years to crack...

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: 300manyearsoflabor; archaeology; bible; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; gudea; gudeaoflagash; iraq; lagash; noahsmalarkey; sumeria; sumerian

[blueplum]

The ruler, carved on a statue of Gudea holding an architectural plan, allows scale-ability of blueprints. The article goes into detail about the ancient Sumar city of Girsu, where, Dr. Rey says, the Flood story of the Bible originated.

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Salman]

If there really were a flood, the Sumerians would have recent memories of it before the Biblical account was written.

Not definitively proving anything, just saying.

[Tennessee Nana]

Theres was nobody left to have memories and write an account...

They were all drownws...

Only Noah and Mrs Noah and their 3 sons and their wives were saved in the Ark...

[Bob434]

Question: if everyone but Noah and family were wiped out, how would current Samarians have any memory of it?

[Bob434]

Sumerians I mean

[PIF]

The Flood was around 10900 BC.

[eastforker]

And please explain in a period of a few thousand years,we have all the races of the world,The black Africans to the yellow asians and all those in between, all decedents from just Noah. Maybe you should take a more realistic view as to how that might have happened because there is no explanation in the bible as to how that occurred.

[Farmerbob]

Noah: ... What’s a cubit?

[SunkenCiv]

Actually, the Sumerian king list was carved on a clay prism, and breaks the kings into two groups, “Before the Flood” and “After the Flood”.

It sets out dynasties in order, but various inscriptions and chronicles show that these were not serial but parallel dynasties, ruling the various city-states, rather than a series of one supreme ruler.

“The Flood” isn’t (as Woolley claimed from his excavation evidence) a reference to a worldwide flood. The thick strata of sand that caps off one earlier level of occupation with the subsequent one was an alluvial fan, and not found in other sites from the same time.

https://www.ashmolean.org/sumerian-king-list

There’s also this legend:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Utnapishtim

[Openurmind]

“If there really were a flood, the Sumerians would have recent memories of it before the Biblical account was written.”

There was a flood, geology proves it. And you are absolutely right, It was documented by the Sumerians first.

[Wuli]

Cultures from all over the world have their ancestral flood stories. It all comes from the end of the last ice age and some catastropic events that happened during that period.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tennessee Nana.

Gudea of Lagash may be my favorite ancient guy, I spotted him back in my barely-spent youth while looking up stuff in the Dictionary of Archaeology or whatever it's called. I've begun to straighten up the pile of lifetime debris and hope to see all my books again, soon. ;^)

Gudea was in a multigenerational dynasty, and had thousands of votive figures of himself made.

His son? grandson? was continuing the family tradition of rule when one of the none-too-neighborly neighbors marched its army over and pounded Lagash.

Those city-consuming fires they used to use in ancient Mesopotamia and elsewhere really pay off for us, because it baked the tablets, preserving the last things written on them.

[Pikachu_Dad]

and from the three sons (and Noah) came the new nations.

English and other Europeans languages came from a predecessor now called ‘India-European’ (after aryan became to tainted)

Sumerian is one of those languages.

Supposedly originated north of the Caucus and Black Sea.

From the sons of Japeth. Then grew out west to Iran, Greene, Rome, France, Germany, and England.

Assume the rest of the sons developed out in the other directions.

http://new-indology.blogspot.com/2015/05/sumerian-and-indo-european-surprising.html?m=1

[ComputerGuy]

Interesting

[bert]

And yet, if they actually exist, none of the instructions were actually included in the article. Perhaps there were in fact, no such rules, merely archeologist pronouncements

[SunkenCiv]

Cuneiform was a Sumerian invention, and was adapted to write many different languages. It was used for diplomatic correspondence for a long time, precisely because of the ease with which it could be adapted. As a writing system it was in use for about 3300 years, the last known surviving inscription dates to 3rd c AD. That's the kind of run alphabetic script has had. :^)

[blueplum]

because the Sumarians would be descendants of one of Noah’s sons and the story would be passed down through the generations.

Hopefully, I get this right: Noah lived about 1,000 years, and his sons would have lived almost as long. The sons were born about 100 years before the Flood, and about age 300, the boys got their 1/3 land allottment. About 100 years later, after the Tower of Babel, Ham, who would have been pushing 400, took his family to his allottment. So if a generation was 1000 years, even cut in half to 500 years, it wouldn’t be that hard for several generations of grandpa’s to remember the Flood and pass the story down. As time progressed, each generation died younger and younger. Abraham died age 175 and Moses died at 120 years old. Moses’ generation remembered the Flood so it’s not a stretch the Sumarians probably would too since it was part of their origin story.

[ComputerGuy]

When did phonics become popular?

[blueplum]

*none of the instructions were actually included in the article.*
Aren’t they? : “ The ancient architectural plan would therefore be divided into repeating fractions of distance... mapped on to the newly unearthed site...four metres... maps perfectly on to half a Sumerian unit... other measurements could have been inputted into turn [typo=the?] system of units which could be scaled up or down...”