The Ubaid Lizard People: Who Were the Reptilian Figures of Ancient Mesopotamia?

Podcast: Ancient Astronauts · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-08-04

Seven thousand years ago, in the Ubaid period of southern Mesopotamia, artists made small terracotta figures with human bodies and long, slant-eyed heads that modern museum catalogs describe as lizardlike or reptilian. Found at sites including Ur and Tell al-Ubaid, and echoed by related discoveries across the Mesopotamian-Gulf world, these figures predate the best-known Sumerian city-states and appear before readable writing can explain them. Some show female anatomy, painted ornaments, dark bitumen hair, hands on hips, and one of the most provocative forms: an adult carrying or nursing a child with the same strange head. Ancient-astronaut proponents argue that...