ANUNNAKI

The Sources

The Tablets

Everything known about the Anunnaki survives on baked clay: wedge-marks pressed with a reed stylus, buried in temple archives, and unread for two thousand years.

Close-up of a cracked Sumerian clay tablet covered in cuneiform script
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PeriodAllBabylonianOld BabylonianStandard BabylonianSumerian
ThemesChronologyCreationEpicKingshipLabourMortalityRitualThe FloodUnderworld
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    Enuma Elish

    c. 1100 BCE, Babylon · Akkadian, seven tablets

    The creation epic. Marduk splits Tiamat to make sky and earth, then settles the Anunnaki — three hundred above, three hundred below — and they build Babylon for him in gratitude.

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