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strong traditions, but all over the place, people I have an idea that this was the first example “The Babylonians believed in ghosts,
who are in charge of money think, “Well, do of “normal” practice. Homo sapiens arrives
we really need this? Is it of any use?” in Europe. What do they do? They kill all and they produced a huge amount of
the blokes and marry the women. They’re writing about them, how to get rid of
I believe in being assertive in saying why probably dark looking, hairy and all sorts of
it’s important. There are lots of really good things like that. them, what they looked like, what it
reasons, and one involves politicians. It’s very meant when they were there, how to
common for them to think, when they look You know people all over Britain are looking
back on what they know about the history of into their DNA to find out about their roots. exorcise them, how to bring them up
the world, that they in themselves represent The fact is that DNA contains a good amount from the dead.”
the highest achievement of humankind of stuff from the Neanderthals, and when it
because they are the leaders. was first published people gave the impression
that a couple of Neanderthal girls got a bit
The fact is that the human race has not drunk at the party and ended up with an Mesopotamia; it’s called The First Ghosts.
evolved at all in any way which is noticeable or unwanted pregnancy and that’s how we have it The Babylonians believed in ghosts, and they
important. The corollary of that is that human in our genetic pool. But of course, it isn’t. They produced a huge amount of writing about
beings have been making the same mistakes must have murdered the men, all of them, and them, how to get rid of them, what they looked
over and over. If you consider what’s happened married the women. And that explains why like, what it meant when they were there, how
since the beginning of writing, what with it’s still such a strong trait. The whites come, to exorcise them, how to bring them up from
nations with tyrants and judicious religious they like the land, they kill off the indigenous the dead.
open the Olympics with the blazing torches, leaders as well as corrupt ones, it’s the same all people, marry their women. So, in the very
we should have some young person running the way through. It is an unchanging disaster first stage of history, we have this happen Before that, I wrote a book called The Ark Before
around the museum all the time, passing the because people are not living by intelligence like the Americans with the Indians and the Noah, which was based upon a cuneiform
torches round and round and round. but sex drive, greed, commerce, violence, all Australians with the Aboriginals. tablet which came to light from a visited
those things. museum. It was part of the flood story which
So, you think there should be some Things like racial prejudice are there from the we had already known about in Mesopotamia
international movement? It’s amazing to me that the world does work at beginning of the species. It seems endemic since the 19th century. This was a tablet which
I would think so. All the directors of those all when people are so uncivilized. It’s really to the human race to be religious – and to be was written in about 1800 B.C., and it was the
museums should know that they’re holding extraordinary that murder doesn’t happen racially prejudiced against the other. So, it’s moment when the gods told a human being to
hands, linking arms, and if someone’s rude every five minutes. I have a kind of naive idea very difficult to expect racism to disappear. I build an ark because the floods will come. So,
about St. Petersburg, well, just a minute, and that if teachers, clergymen and other such think we should take history and archaeology he did and put all the animals in it, and that’s
then the other museums will come down on people had a really good grasp of what we and writing as a kind of tapestry: the more the story behind Noah in the Bible, but it was a
the offender. can see humans have done since they arrived, you know of the stitching, the more you thousand years older.
they’d be a bit more modest about being understand why we’re in such a mess.
What about recruitment to your field? dogmatic. So, it’s real?
It’s not good because of the disasters of how Apart from YouTube do you have other Real I don’t know, but in ancient Iraq, they had
museums are treated. This country has been Before Homo sapiens, there were the channels that people can watch? this flood story with a boat that rescued life at
financially undermined. People in Britain say Neanderthals. I don’t know how many The thing about the British Museum and least a thousand years before the one in the
that science is of prime importance and the hundreds of thousands of years they lived YouTube is that they get people who know about Bible because the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
arts generally aren’t. By arts I mean theaters, in Europe before Homo sapiens turned up. their own subject, and who are enthusiastic which bring all the water there sometimes
cinema, painting and all that. “We do not The thing about them is they were physically about it, and then they do videos and post flood. There must have been a very serious
really need that, and it’s not so important.” slight in build compared to us but their brain them on YouTube. There’s someone who does flood. When the Judeans after the destruction
Museum departments, which are in the arts capacity was slightly larger. They survived ice clocks and watches, some good things about of Jerusalem were taken to Babylon under
suffer badly. They don’t teach Latin and Greek ages and ate mammoths, and they obviously ancient Egypt, about the Romans etc. Several Nebuchadnezzar, they heard this story. In
very much anymore, which used to be the had a language and they married their sisters of the curators do videos but some won’t. It’s the construction of the Genesis book, they
staple of proper education. and bred, and they were healthy and strong a widespread thing, and it’s a very beneficial decided to take the narrative as a teaching
individuals and they buried their dead. matter. I’m all in favor of it. structure in the Hebrew text which then went
Several of the departments where Assyriology, into Greek and Latin and Christianity. So,
cuneiform used to be taught don’t do it But the interesting thing is that for about I just heard that you said you have written what is so extraordinary is that the god who
anymore. So, it’s shrinking. There are countries, 600,000 years they were here then homo a book, a new book. Could you tell us more has this information gave the size of the boat,
Holland, Germany, America and France and sapiens arrived and very soon afterwards they about it? the shape of it and all the materials you need
other places, where there are or have been disappeared. I wrote a book about the ghosts of ancient to make it.

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