Gods of the Clay Tablets

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Two sets of tablets. One real. One maybe-mythical. Both built empires of belief.

The first set sits in museum drawers in London, Paris, and Baghdad: hundreds of thousands of pieces of baked river clay pressed with wedge-shaped marks — the cuneiform tablets of ancient Mesopotamia, humanity's oldest writing. They hold the oldest laws, the oldest love songs, the oldest flood story, and gods with names we still argue about: the Anunnaki.

The second set may never have existed at all: tablets of solid emerald, said to be inscribed by a god-king of Atlantis and revealed in the 1930s to a former cab driver from Oklahoma. Millions have read about them. No scholar has ever held one.

For a century, writers have blurred the two together — mixing the real clay of Sumer with the maybe-mythical emerald of Atlantis, the scholarship of Assyriologists with the ancient-astronaut theories of Zecharia Sitchin. Gods of the Clay Tablets unblurs them: the real history of the Anunnaki, the true story of the Emerald Tablet (and Newton's secret obsession with it), the strange case of Maurice Doreal's Atlantean tablets, the Sitchin phenomenon and the scholars' rebuttal, and the Watchers of the Book of Enoch.

Written for curious readers who want both the wonder and the evidence — with a clear honesty contract: you'll always know where the evidence ends and the speculation begins.