Sumerian Texts Reveal That Humanity Was Never Meant to Remember Everything | History For Sleep

Ancient Sumerian tablets do not attempt to record history in full. They preserve fragments, silences, and omissions. This is not a story about forgotten knowledge, but about why some memories may never have been meant to survive. Tonight, we return to the oldest written texts on Earth. We explore why early scribes chose to record certain moments and leave others unwritten. Why floods are mentioned but rarely explained. Why humanity seems to enter history already in progress, as if something came before that was quietly left behind. This video reflects an interpretive reading of ancient Sumerian sources and their cultural meaning. A meditation on memory as selection. On forgetting as survival. On the ancient understanding that to carry everything forward is to carry too much.