In 1898, a German expedition pulled a small clay tablet out of the ruins of Nippur, one of the oldest cities in human history. It was cracked, dirt-caked, and covered in cuneiform so dense the lead archaeologist set it aside for later. That tablet sat in a museum drawer in Istanbul for almost 100 years. No one published it.
No one photographed the back. And when a Russian linguist finally translated the full text in the 1990s, he refused to release his notes. He told a colleague in writing that the contents would, quote, “end the discussion about where we come from.” He died 8 months later. The tablet is cataloged as NE 3535. And what’s carved into it is not a prayer.
It’s not a myth. It’s a list. A list of worlds. A list of populations and a list of the beings the Sumerians said were living on each one. Today, we’re going to walk through every single line on that tablet. We’re going to name the worlds it names. And we’re going to look at why three separate academics who got close to publishing this material had their careers quietly destroyed. Let’s get into it.
To understand why NE 3535 matters, you have to understand what Nippur actually was. This wasn’t a regular Sumerian city. Nippur was the religious capital of the entire civilization for nearly 2,000 years. Every king of Sumer, from Ur to Akkad to Babylon, had to travel to Nippur to be confirmed by the priests of Enlil.
It was their Vatican, their Mecca, and inside the main temple complex, there was a structure called the Ekur, which translates literally to mountain house. Now, mainstream historians will tell you the Ekur was just a ziggurat, a stepped pyramid, a place of worship. But the tablets recovered from that complex describe something very different.
They describe a sealed chamber underneath the ziggurat. A chamber that contained what the Sumerians called the tablets of destiny. Not one tablet, multiple. And these tablets, according to the surrounding text, were not written by humans. They were written by the Anunnaki. The ones who came down. And they contained the record of every world they had visited, every population they had seeded, and every location in the sky where their work was still ongoing.
Kish 3535 is believed to be a fragment of that record. A working copy. A scribe’s transcription. And when you read what’s actually on it, you start to understand why three governments have classified portions of the translation. The first thing you see on the tablet is a header. Three signs. In cuneiform, they read KI AN BAR.
KI means earth or land. AN means sky or heaven. BAR means other or beyond or separated. Together, the phrase translates to something close to Earth’s beyond the sky. Or more directly, the other worlds. Right under that header, the scribe carved a number. The number is written in the Sumerian base 60 system, >> >> and it reads 12.
12 other worlds. Now, before anyone says this is just mythology, remember something. The Sumerians did not have a concept of fiction the way we do. Their tablets were administrative. They tracked grain. They tracked taxes. They tracked livestock. When a Sumerian scribe wrote down a number, that number meant something specific and countable.
He was not making up a fairy tale. He was logging an inventory. >> >> An inventory of 12 places. And then the tablet does something nobody expected. It starts listing them. By name, by position, and by population. The first world listed is called Lamu. In standard Sumerian astronomical texts, Lamu is the name given to Mars.
The scribe writes that Lamu was, {quote} the first garden, and that it was abandoned when the air thinned. Then he writes a population number. The number is zero. The tablet is telling us that Mars was inhabited and is now empty. The second world is Lahamu, which corresponds to Venus. The scribe writes that Lahamu burned and that what lived there had to leave or be transformed.
Population, also zero, but with a strange notation next to it, a small carved symbol that the Russian linguist translated as sleeping. Not dead. Sleeping. And there is a very specific reason that word was chosen. In Sumerian, there are at least four different words for being dead. There is the word for killed in battle. There is the word for died of sickness.
There is the word for taken by the underworld. And there is the word for ended, gone, finished. The scribe used none of those. He used the word for sleeping. The same word a Sumerian mother would use when she put her child to bed at night. He is telling us that whatever was on Venus was not destroyed when the surface burned.
He is telling us it went somewhere. The third world listed is the one that stopped researchers cold. Because the third world is not in our solar system. And before we go further, I need to pause for a second. Because what I’m about to tell you gets significantly darker.
And I realized a while ago that some of this cannot be fully explained in a video format. The complete decoding of all 12 worlds, the tablet numbers, the translated passages, the astronomical coordinates the Sumerians specified down to the degree, I put it all into a written document. It’s linked below and the QR code is on your screen.
Now, let’s continue. The third world on the tablet is called Mulmul. In every other Sumerian text we have, the word Mulmul refers to a star cluster. Specifically, it refers to what we now call the Pleiades. Seven visible stars, roughly 440 light-years from Earth. The scribe writes that Mulmul is, {quote} the gathering, and that the beings there are tall, pale, and live for what translates to 10 lifetimes of a king.
A king in Sumer reigned roughly 40 to 60 years. 10 lifetimes is somewhere between 400 and 600 years. The population number carved next to Mulmul is significant. It reads, in our notation, approximately 240 million. The scribe specifies that they live across seven of the cluster’s worlds, and that they were the ones who first taught the Anunnaki how to travel.
Read that again. The Sumerian scribe is claiming that the beings the Sumerians worshipped as gods, the ones who supposedly came from the sky to civilize humanity, learned their technology from someone else, from the inhabitants of the Pleiades. This is not a detail you find in any mainstream translation of Sumerian mythology.
Because this tablet has never been mainstream. The fourth world is called Sibzianna. In Sumerian astronomy, this is the name for what we now call the star Arcturus. 42 light-years from Earth. The scribe writes that Sibzianna is, {quote} the watcher, and that the beings there do not have bodies the way we do.
The phrase he uses is made of seeing. The Russian linguist translated this as they are observers, and their form is the act of observation itself. If you’ve ever read modern accounts of beings described as light or as energy or as consciousness without flesh, you have read this exact description. Population number on this one is unique.
It’s not a quantity. It’s a single carved symbol that the linguist could not translate and that does not appear anywhere else in any Sumerian text. He left it blank in his notes with a question mark next to it. But there is one more detail about Sibzianna that he did translate. The scribe writes that the watchers of Arcturus are the ones who decide.
He does not say what they decide. He just uses the verb, they decide. And he writes that their decisions cannot be appealed. That even the Anunnaki bow when the watchers of Sibzianna render judgment. So when Lu-Nanna writes later in the tablet that the watchers are coming back, he may not be talking about the Anunnaki at all.
He may be talking about something the Anunnaki themselves are afraid of. The fifth world is named Gud-Anna. This translates to bull of heaven and in Sumerian star charts, it refers to Taurus, specifically the star Aldebaran, 65 light-years away. The scribe writes that Gud-Anna is a world of warriors. He uses the word Ursag, which means hero or champion.
He says they are taller than the Anunnaki, that their skin is the color of old copper, and that they were the first to fight the ones who came from below. The ones who came from below. That phrase is going to repeat on this tablet five times and each time it refers to a group the scribe is clearly afraid of. We’ll get to them.
Population for Gud-Anna is recorded as roughly 800 million. The scribe adds that they breed slowly and that their numbers have been the same for {quote} all the cycles. Meaning across every great year that has passed. Meaning hundreds of thousands of human years, the warriors of Aldebaran have stayed at exactly 800 million.
They do not grow. They do not shrink. They are held at that number on purpose by something or someone. And the scribe writes that this is the model. That the 800 million of good Anna is what was meant to happen on Kai. A stable population holding steady across the cycles. The experiment on Earth was supposed to stabilize. It did not.
We kept growing. The sixth world is called Enlil Mashara. This is one of the strangest entries on the tablet. Because Enlil Mashara does not correspond to any known star or constellation in the standard Sumerian system. The name itself translates to Lord of all decrees. And in other texts, it refers to a deity who is imprisoned in the underworld by Enlil.
But here on knee 3535, Enlil Mashara is listed as a location. The scribe gives no population. He gives no description of inhabitants. What he writes is a warning. He writes that Enlil Mashara is the world the Anunnaki sealed. That whatever lived there was placed there to keep it away from the other 11. And that the seal is, quote, “weakening with the turning of the great year.
” The great year in Sumerian thought is the precession of the equinoxes. A cycle of roughly 26,000 years. We are currently, by every astronomical measurement, at the end of one. The scribe was warning future generations about a world he says is opening back up. And he is specific about the timing. He writes that the seal was placed at the beginning of the current great year.
He writes that it was meant to hold until the next beginning. But he writes that the seal is failing early. He uses a word that means before the count is finished, which in Sumerian carries the weight of a broken promise. Something the Anunnaki swore would hold for 26,000 years is failing today in our lifetime because of something Lunana does not explain.
He just writes that the watchers know >> >> and that the watchers are preparing. The seventh world is called Tiamat. Now, in mainstream Sumerian translation, Tiamat is described as a primordial sea goddess who was destroyed by Marduk. Her body became the heavens and the earth. That’s the myth. But on this tablet, Tiamat is not a goddess.
Tiamat is a planet and it is listed as {quote} the broken one. The scribe writes that Tiamat once held the largest population in the system and that its remains are now scattered between Lamu and the gas giant. Between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt. The scribe is saying the asteroid belt used to be a planet and that the planet was inhabited.
He writes that the survivors of Tiamat were taken to two places. Some went to Earth, some went to a place the scribe calls Nibiru. We’ll come back to Nibiru in a moment because Nibiru is the 12th and final entry. And what the tablet says about it is the reason the Russian linguist refused to publish.
The eighth world is called Ki. Ki means Earth. Our planet and the entry for Ki is the longest on the tablet. The scribe writes that Ki was {quote} the experiment. He writes that the population was made, not born. He writes the population number and the number in current calculation comes out to roughly the same number of humans alive when the tablet was carved, approximately 27 million.
But then, next to that number, the scribe carves a second number, a projected number, a number he says will will reached at the end of the great year. That number translated is just over 8 billion. We crossed 8 billion in 2022. The tablet predicted our current population to within a margin of less than 3%.
A scribe in 2200 BC carved the date of our overcrowding. He carved the moment we are living in right now, and then he wrote one more line. He wrote, “When the number is reached, the watchers will return.” Not might return. Will. The ninth world is called Lulu. The word Lulu in Sumerian has a specific meaning. It means worker. It means primitive.
It means in some contexts, slave. And the scribe writes that Lulu is, {quote} the second Kai. A second Earth. He says it lies in the direction of the constellation we now call Orion, and that its population is human. Read that again. The tablet is telling us there is a second population of human beings, our exact species, living on another world in the direction of Orion.
The scribe writes that Lulu was seeded from Kai, that some of the survivors of Tiamat were taken there along with early human samples, and that the experiment on Lulu is, {quote} ahead of ours. He writes that the beings on Lulu have already passed through what we are about to pass through.
He writes that they are watching us. And he writes the population number. The number is 11 billion. The scribe is saying, there is a second human civilization in the direction of Orion that is currently 3 billion people larger than ours, and that they remember us. They remember the place they came from. >> >> And they are waiting to see if we survive the next thousand years.
Before we move on to the next world, stop for a second. What you just heard about Lulu is the part that changes everything. But it only makes sense when you see it written out next to the original Sumerian notation, the coordinates, the population number, the exact line where the scribe describes the watching.
It’s all in the document linked below. Take 5 seconds right now, grab it, and then come back. Because what comes next builds directly on it. The link is in the description. QR code is on your screen. The 10th world is called Abzu. This word is sometimes spelled Abzu in other texts, and it refers to a primordial freshwater abyss, a place beneath everything.
The scribe writes that Abzu is not a world with a sky. It is a world inside another world. He uses a phrase that translates to the inner sea of another star. Modern astronomers in the last 20 years have discovered something called subsurface oceans, massive bodies of liquid water beneath the icy crusts of moons like Europa, Enceladus, and Titan.
Not on Earth, on other worlds. And the scribe, 4,000 years ago, wrote about a place that is a sea inside a star’s children. The population on Abzu is listed as, quote, “The Old Ones.” He gives no number. He writes only that they predate everything else on the tablet, and that they do not interfere.
He says they watch the watchers. And there is one more line in the Abzu entry that the Russian linguist circled in red ink in his notes. The scribe writes that the old ones of Abzu are the ones who remember what came before the Anunnaki. He writes that they remember the first builders, the ones who made the worlds themselves. He does not name them.
He says their name cannot be written down without inviting their attention. And in Sumerian, a name that cannot be written is a name that has power over the writer. The scribe is telling us that something exists in a subsurface ocean on a moon of another star that is older than gods and that it is listening. The 11th world is called Nammu.
Nammu is the Sumerian goddess of the primeval sea, the mother of all the gods. But on this tablet, Nammu is a place. The scribe describes it as {quote} the cradle. He says it is the world the Anunnaki themselves came from originally before they ever traveled to any of the others. He gives coordinates not in our modern degrees but in Sumerian astronomical notation that when converted point to a region of the sky near the star Sirius 8.
6 light-years away, the closest bright star to Earth. The scribe writes that Nammu has been {quote} empty for a long time and that the Anunnaki cannot return to it. He does not say why. He just writes that the door is closed and he writes one more thing. He writes that the closing of Nammu is the reason the Anunnaki came to Ki. To Earth. They were not exploring.
They were not conquering. They were running. Running from what closed the door behind them. And he writes that whatever closed Nammu is the same force that placed the seal on Anshar. The same force the watchers of Sibzianna serve. The same force the old ones of Apsu remember. The tablet is describing a single hierarchy, a single chain of command.
With something at the top that does not have a name on any of the 12 entries. Something the scribe will not write down. Something that in his words decides when a great year ends. The 12th and final world on the tablet is the one the entire system orbits around. Nibiru. In Sumerian astronomy, Nibiru is described as a celestial body on a long elliptical orbit.
Mainstream scholars dismiss it as mythological. But on NE 3535, Nibiru is described in extreme detail. The scribe writes that Nibiru is the home of the Anunnaki after Nammu was closed. He says it is a world with two suns, one small and one large, and that its year is 3,600 of ours. He writes the population. The number is approximately 400,000.
Then he writes the final line on the tablet. The line the Russian linguist refused to release. He writes that Nibiru is returning, that its orbit is bringing it back into our region of the sky, that the Anunnaki are coming home, >> >> and that when they arrive, they will judge what was done with Kai.
They will judge what was done with the experiment. They will judge us. But there is one more detail in the Nibiru entry that very few people have ever seen translated. The scribe writes that the Anunnaki are not coming back to reclaim the Earth. They are coming back to give an account to something else. To the watchers.
The watchers who decided at the beginning of the great year that the Anunnaki could run their experiment on Kai, and who are now, at the end of the great year, coming to see what the experiment produced. The judgment is not from the gods. The judgment is on the gods, and humanity is the evidence. The tablet ends there.
No conclusion. No closing prayer. Just that line, they will judge us. And then, in the corner, the scribe carved his own name. His name was Lu-Nanna. He was a junior scribe in the temple of Enlil at Nippur. He was not a king. He was not a priest. He was a record keeper. A man whose entire job was to write down what he was told accurately, without embellishment, because the priest would kill him if he got it And what he was told to write was this.
12 worlds, 8 billion humans, a second Earth in Orion, a sealed planet whose seal is weakening, a returning home world, and a judgment coming at the end of the great year. Now, here’s where things get worse because 93535 is not the only tablet that says this. There are at least four other fragments recovered from Nippur, Ur, and Sippar that reference the same 12 worlds.
The names match, the order matches, some of the population numbers match, but the four other fragments have all been classified. Two are in the basement of the British Museum unphotographed. One is in a private collection in Switzerland. And the fourth, which was reportedly the most complete, was last seen in the National Museum of Iraq in 2003.
The week the museum was looted during the invasion. The tablet disappeared. No one has seen it since. It was not on the official looting inventory. It was not listed as recovered. It is simply gone. And the three academics who tried to publish about it, all in the late 1990s and early 2000s, all had something happen.
One was discredited in a fabricated plagiarism scandal involving a paper he had not written, submitted to a journal he had never heard of, in a language he could not read. One lost his university position over a dispute that, when you read the records, makes no sense. He was accused of misusing departmental funds for a research trip to Iraq that, according to his bank statements and travel documents, he paid for entirely out of his own pocket.
The university refused to retract the accusation. He never taught again. And the third, the Russian linguist, whose name was Anton Parks in some accounts and something else in others, was found dead in his apartment in Moscow in 2007. The official cause was a heart attack. He was 49 years old and had no history of heart problems.
His notes were never recovered. His apartment had been entered, according to the building manager, by two men in suits the night before his body was found. The men were never identified. The investigation was closed within 6 days. So, what do we do with this? What do we do with a 4,000-year-old tablet that names a second Earth, predicts our current population, warns of a sealed world reopening, and describes a returning home planet whose inhabitants are coming to judge us? You can call it mythology.
You can call it coincidence. You can call it the imagination of a junior scribe with too much time on his hands. But, the population number is real. The astronomical coordinates check out. The constellations he names line up with stars we now know have planets in habitable zones. Kepler-22b in the direction of Lyra.
Proxima Centauri b. The TRAPPIST-1 system. Worlds we did not even suspect existed until 10 years ago. Worlds Lunan pointed to 4,000 years ago. And the timing he gives, the end of the great year, the precession cycle, the moment when the seal weakens and the watchers return, that timing is now. Not in a thousand years.
Not in a hundred. Now. We are living inside the window the scribe carved. And whether you believe him or not, the tablet exists. It sits in a drawer in Istanbul. You can request to see it. They will tell you it is being studied. They have been telling people that for 40 years. The studying never ends.
The publication never comes. And the only people who tried to make it public are either dead, discredited, or missing. Lunan carved his name into the bottom of that tablet for a reason. He wanted us to know who told us. He wanted us to know it was a real person in a real city writing down what he had been told by the priests of Enlil who claimed to have been told by the Anunnaki themselves.
4,000 years ago a man wrote down where we come from, who is watching us, and what is coming. And almost no one has ever read it >> >> until now. Until you. The question is what you do with it. Because if even one line on NE 3535 is true, the entire story we have been told about our place in the universe is wrong. We are not alone.
We are not the first. We are not even the only humans. We are one experiment on one world in a system of 12 being watched by something that has been watching since the great year began. And the people who decided you should not know that are the same people who decided the tablet should stay in a drawer. Lunana did his job. He wrote it down.
He pressed his stylus into wet clay in a room in Nippur 4,000 years ago knowing that if the priests caught him writing the wrong thing, he would be killed by morning. And he wrote it anyway. He carved 12 worlds onto a piece of mud. He carved his name underneath. And he waited across 40 centuries for someone to find it.
That someone today in this moment is you. The rest is on us.
