What Happened to the Animals That Were Smarter Than Us? (Sumerian Mystery) | History for Sleep

Описание: Drift into extinction mysteries—Sumerian texts reference "the wise beasts," "those who walked upright before the black-headed people," and "creatures with understanding that were removed from the earth." Not mythological monsters but descriptions suggesting intelligent non-human species coexisting with or predating humans in ancient Mesopotamia, species possessing cognitive abilities potentially exceeding early humans, then mysteriously vanishing from fossil record and historical memory.

Archaeological evidence supports disturbing possibility: Neanderthals had larger brain capacity than modern humans, used sophisticated tools, created art, buried their dead with ceremony suggesting complex thought. They disappeared within 5,000 years of Homo sapiens arrival—not gradual evolution but rapid extinction of cognitively sophisticated species. Denisovans showed similar intelligence markers, similar sudden disappearance. What if these weren't evolutionary dead ends but superior competitors systematically eliminated by humans or something else that couldn't tolerate intelligent competition?

Sumerian fragments describe "the cleansing of the clever beasts," "removal of those who questioned," suggesting deliberate elimination rather than natural extinction. If Anunnaki were engineering humans as workers, other intelligent species would've been problems—competitive labor, potential rebels, beings capable of comprehending their situation and organizing resistance. Texts hint at systematic hunting, possibly Anunnaki-directed genocide eliminating every sapient species except humans, the one designed to specification and controllable.

Sleep wondering why we're the only intelligent species left when fossil record shows we weren't always alone. Maybe we didn't outcompete smarter cousins through superiority—maybe we survived because we were dumber, more obedient, less threatening to beings who couldn't tolerate competition and systematically removed everything smarter than the workers they engineered.

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