The Babylonian Cuneiform of the Georgia Guidestones (Translation of the Akkadian language portion)

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What did the Akkadian inscription of the Georgia Guidestones say? In this video, I read and provide my own translation of what the ancient Akkadian portion of the inscription says, or at least is trying to say (I would have created a different translation for the Akkadian portion of the Guidestone). I suspect that the translator swapped the English with Akkadian words from a dictionary, when a better method would have been to follow the natural patterns of text in similar statements that we've discovered are prevalent in Akkadian..

The recently destroyed Georgia Guidestones were a series of 4 large monolithic stones bearing 8 inscriptions in modern languages. A headstone above had a short inscription in four languages: Greek, Egyptian, Sanskrit, and "Babylonian Cuneiform". What the monument site referred to as Babylonian Cuneiform is generally otherwise referred to as Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylonian and Assyria.

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