Cuneiform Video: AI Just Translated Ancient Sumerian Texts — And Reveals Terrifying Knowledge About Human Races — E8 Intelligence Research
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The honest starting point: the tablet in that video cannot be identified. The title is a genre marker — "AI translated ancient Sumerian texts and revealed terrifying knowledge" — not a citation. No museum number (BM, YBC, Plimpton, CBS, VAT) appears in the thumbnail, description, or narration, and no cuneiformist has published an "AI translation" of a Sumerian tablet containing claims about human races. Sumerian has no word for "race" in the modern sense; the video's framing is a modern imposition. So treat the specific artifact as unverifiable. What we *can* do is describe the real tablets that get recycled into this kind of content, because the numbers in them are genuinely remarkable. The most likely candidates: **YBC 7289** (Yale Babylonian Collection) — Old Babylonian, ~1800–1600 BCE. A square with its two diagonals. Along one side: 30. Along the diagonal: 1,24,51,10 in sexagesimal, i.e. 1 + 24/60 + 51/3600 + 10/216000 ≈ 1.41421296. That is √2 accurate to six decimal places (tru Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Author: Caldin, Andrew Stewart
Language: English
Topic: Ancient Near East History
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7224943111