The Unanswered Mystery of 7,000-year-old Ubaid Lizardmen
It is accepted by mainstream archaeology that civilization started in Iraq, in ancient Mesopotamia with the great civilisation of Sumeria.
However, there is an archaeological discovery at the Al Ubaid archaeological site, where many pre-Sumerian 7,000-year-old artefacts were found, depicting humanoid figures with lizard characteristics.
The Ubaidian culture is a prehistoric culture in Mesopotamia
that dates between 4000 and 5500 BC. As with the Sumerians, the origins of the
Ubaidian people is unknown. They lived in large village settlements in
mud-brick houses and they had developed architecture, agriculture and farmed
the land using irrigation. The domestic
architecture included large T-shaped houses, open courtyards, paved
streets, as well as food processing equipment. Some of these villages began to
develop into towns, temples began to appear, as well as monumental
buildings such as in Eridu, Ur and Uruk, the major sites of the Sumerian
Civilization. According to the Sumerian texts, Ur was believed to be the
first city.
The main site where the unusual artefacts were discovered is
called Tell Al’Ubaid – although figurines were also found in Ur and Eridu. The
Al’Ubaid site is a small mound of about half a kilometre in diametre and two
meters above ground. The site was first excavated by Harry Reginald
Hal in 1919. Male and female figurines were found in different postures and
in most of the figurines, they appear to be wearing a helmet and have some kind
of padding on the shoulders. Other figurines were found to hold a staff or
sceptre, possibly as a symbol of justice and ruling. Each figurine has a
different pose but the strangest of all is that some female figurines hold
babies suckling milk, with the child also represented as a lizard-type
creature.
The figurines are presented with long heads, almond shaped
eyes, long tapered faces and a lizard-type nose. What exactly they represent is
completely unknown. According to archaeologists, their postures, such as a
female figure breast-feeding, does not suggest that they were ritualistic
objects. So what did these lizard figures represent?
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Whatever they were, they appear to have been important to
the ancient Ubaidian people. We know that the Serpent was a major symbol used
in many societies to represent a number of gods, for example, the Sumerian god
Enki, and the snake was used later on as the symbol for the brotherhood of the
Snake, as William
Bramley discusses. Is there a link between the symbol of the snake and the
representations of lizards? For now, these questions remain unanswered.
By John Black
It is accepted by mainstream archaeology that civilization started in Iraq, in ancient Mesopotamia with the great civilisation of Sumeria. However, there is an archaeological discovery at the Al Ubaid archaeological site, where many pre-Sumerian 7,000-year-old artefacts were found, depicting humanoid figures with lizard characteristics. - See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/unanswered-mystery-7000-year-old-ubaid-lizardmen-001116#sthash.jgaYlri5.dpuf
