Cuneiform Video: AI Translated Ancient Sumerian Texts — And Reveals Terrifying Knowledge About Human Races — E8 Intelligence Research
**What the video almost certainly refers to, and what the tablet actually contains** The YouTube title — "AI Translated Ancient Sumerian Texts — And Reveals Terrifying Knowledge About Human Races" — is a content-farm formula, not a scholarly citation. No tablet is named, no museum number is given, and the "terrifying knowledge about human races" framing has no basis in Assyriology. That said, the video is almost certainly recycling one of a small set of genuine tablets that get passed around in exactly this genre. The most likely candidates are **Plimpton 322** (Babylonian, ~1800 BCE, Columbia University) or **YBC 7289** (Yale Babylonian Collection), sometimes conflated with **BM 92698** or the **Rhind**-adjacent material. **Plimpton 322** is the strongest match for "mathematical knowledge." It is a table of 15 rows in sexagesimal (base-60) notation listing what we now recognize as Pythagorean triples — integer solutions to a² + b² = c² — roughly 1,000 years before Pythagoras. Row 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
- 2026-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23971560
- Primary Topic
- Ancient Near East History
- Type
- preprint