67: From the book: HISTORY OF THE GREATEST LIES 12 The Sumerians gave the world cuneiform. Clay tablets on which they wrote with sharpened sticks but rather squeezed out the texts in the form of wedges. Cuneiform writing has spread to many cultures. The finished tablets with the text were dried and fired in an oven. The Sumerian-Akkadian culture of writing on clay tablets was used in almost all languages ​​of Mesopotamia. The Babylonian Talmud, written in Aramaic (the Torah with all interpretations, amendments, translations, etc.), entered the Bible as the Old Testament. Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic. In Canaan, the northern part of the Mediterranean coast, from Mount Carmel to present-day Lebanon, was occupied by Semitic peoples, the Phoenicians. Excellent seafarers, they built large keel ships with ram and straight sail. They mastered the coast of the Mediterranean basin, reached Gibraltar, and further to the Azores and Canary Islands. Carthage and multiple colonies were founded on the islands: Greece, Malta, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Sicily. They invented their own writing system, which became the basis of the Greek alphabet and Latin alphabet. The Phoenician city of Sidon is mentioned in the Torah. The Phoenicians helped the Israelites build the temple and supplied cedarwood. In the 6th century BC. The Assyrian Empire captured Phenicia.