World Famous Archaeologist Says “Sumerian Ghost” Helped Him Solve Artifact Mystery

The True Story of a German-American Assyriologist Who Time Traveled to 4000 B.C. and Conversed With a Sumerian Priest

He was one of the world’s leading scientists. Little did he know, he was about to get a personal visit from an ancient Sumerian priest who had been dead for more than 4,000 years.

Furthermore, this bizarre meeting between the renowned scholar and a ghost from a vanished civilization would provide a solution to a vexing archaeological mystery.

THE ESTEEMED GERMAN-AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST

It was the year 1896, and Dr. Hermann Volrath Hilprecht was up late at night working in a cluttered archaeology lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He was surrounded by artifacts retrieved from the numerous digs he had worked on or supervised in various remote desert regions of what is now modern-day Iraq.

The German-born Dr. Hilprecht was a world-renowned Assyriologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His specialty was deciphering and interpreting cuneiform clay tablets and other objects. Cuneiform is the first known writing system, developed by the Sumerians in about 3,200 B.C.