Cuneiform Video: We Were Made: The Sumerian Tablet That Names The Moment Of Our Engineering — E8 Intelligence Research
**Focused Discovery: The "We Were Made" Tablet — An Honest Assessment** The YouTube video "We Were Made: The Sumerian Tablet That Names The Moment Of Our Engineering" does not, to my knowledge, correspond to any identifiable cuneiform tablet in the published corpus. No museum number (BM, YBC, CBS, Plimpton, AO, etc.) is cited in the video, no excavation provenance is given, and no Assyriological publication is referenced. This is the first red flag: legitimate tablets discussed in popular media are almost always traceable to a museum collection and a scholarly edition (e.g., *CT*, *YBC*, *MSL*, *OIP*). **What the video claims vs. what the corpus actually contains** The video's framing — a tablet naming "the moment of our engineering" — echoes a genre of pseudo-Sumerian content that blends genuine artifacts with fabricated narrative. The real tablets most often misrepresented in this way are: - **Plimpton 322** (Columbia University, Plimpton 322): a genuine Old Babylonian tablet (~1 Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Authors
- Andrew Stewart Caldin
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23831025
- Primary Topic
- Ancient Near East History
- Type
- preprint