Iraqi archaeologists find ancient Sumerian settlement

[Hammerhead]

To me it appears to be either a table and chairs or a gleaming doorway.

[Ed Douglas]

That one is tough to figure. It appears to be glowing, or  emitting something.  ed

[Yowbarb]

Are you talking about the thing that looks like a big bug standing upright?  I wondered what that was.  Also, the thing in the sky I thought looked like a table with the three beings sitting at it.  I'm wondering what the symbol between the standing figures is.  Does anyone know what these symbols mean?  There was some English guy in the 1800's who was able to interpret Sumerian.  I can't remember his name to try to find this on my own.

augonit this is a treasure of a site ... had posted about it on the old Town Hall. It's where I got the story of the ark - actually two stories. The translator said the Chaldean tablets refer back to a time immemorial many thousands of years before that, in which there was a flood. http://www.sacred-texts.com/ 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/index.htm    Sacred Texts, Ancient Near East

Sumerian Mythology
by Samuel Noah Kramer [1944, 1961]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/sum/index.htm

 The Epic of Gilgamish
by R. Campbell Thompson [1928]
The first complete academic translation of Gilgamesh.

 The Chaldean Account of the Deluge
by George Smith [1873]
A historic article in which the discovery of the Babylonian Deluge account was announced, an episode from the Gilgamesh myth.

 The Chaldean Account of Genesis
by George Smith [1876]
Early translations of key texts: the Enuma Elish, the Descent of Ishtar, and the Gilgamesh saga, including the Babylonian Flood.
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Sumerian Goddess Ishtar



http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images2/ishtar4.jpg

http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/