Matthew LaCroix

Well, there may not, there may be some truth to that because this civilization, as far as I'm aware, they left behind symbols and motifs, but no writings.

So if you can put a complex meaning, so let's say Danny Jones is like, well, I want to put in a super complex meaning of something.

You can take a really large amount of information and condense it into one single thing.

That's the brilliance behind symbols.

So we think writing is so advanced, but actually symbols are far more advanced because they can carry complex meanings that can carry over through time, right?

And I think the reason for that is that that is the level of knowledge that we're talking about that this civilization encoded.

So it's the same thing.

What you're about to see, you're going to be like, oh, that's exactly what it is.

But let's start here just for a minute here.

I want to explain something.

Now, you see on the right, I have Uruk and Gilgamesh.

Okay, so this is the famous excavation of a place called Telfar, Iraq in 1931.

That was the reason why I went to Penn Archive for the documentary, because Penn Archive in Pennsylvania has all the records from this excavation.

So you can go and you can read through them all and you can actually see things you can't see online.

So in that excavation expedition in 1931, they're trying to find Chirupac, even though it's not real, okay?

And you see on the right that this six to seven feet down, Uruk, you see that?

U-R-U-K and Gilgamesh.

Super important to remember this going forward.

Why?

Because academics still today, to this day now, will say that Uruk and Gilgamesh is where civilization began.