00:00What if a library buried for 2,500 years changed what we know about ancient history?
00:06In the ruins of Nineveh, archaeologists discovered the lost library of King Ashurbanipal,
00:12filled with thousands of clay tablets.
00:15These tablets contained myths, astronomy, royal records, and even an ancient flood story
00:20that existed long before the surviving biblical manuscripts of Genesis.
00:24They also preserved older Sumerian traditions about powerful beings called the Anunnaki,
00:31ancient gods in Mesopotamian religion.
00:34One of the strangest texts, the Sumerian King List, claims some rulers lived for thousands of years before a great
00:41flood.
00:42Historians believe these numbers were symbolic, but the mystery remains.
00:46And here's the crazy part. When Nineveh burned, the fire didn't destroy the tablets.
00:51It baked them harder, preserving them for us to read thousands of years later.
00:57So how much of ancient history are we still missing?
01:00But we don't know how much of apartheid is already playing.
01:00what is being a hunter?
01:00It is interesting.
01:00It is interesting.
01:00It is interesting.
01:00I mean, it is interesting to see a foreman,
