Dedicated Issues··Saturday, November 14, 2026, 1:36 PM
Sumerians Had a Working Model of Human Genetics 5,000 Years Before DNA? The Tablets and the Latest DNA Say Not So Fast
The viral claim is simple and sticky. A YouTube piece from October 2026 (below) (and a swarm of X posts that followed) says the Sumerians left a working model of human genetics on clay tablets roughly 5,000 years before Watson, Crick, and the double helix. The specific hook in several of those videos is a
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