Did the US invade Iraq to seize ancient tech, a buried god-king, or a Stargate? The truth is buried deep.
The invasion of Iraq wasn't just about oil or weapons of mass destruction. That’s the official story. But buried beneath the desert sands of Mesopotamia lies Uruk—home of Gilgamesh, the god-king of the oldest epic ever written. In 2003, just as U.S. troops stormed Baghdad, a German archaeological team allegedly uncovered a tomb matching the Epic of Gilgamesh... and then the site was sealed. Team vanished. Site classified. The military moved in.
In this explosive episode, Divergent Files digs into one of the most unsettling theories of modern war: that the real objective of the Iraq War was a retrieval mission—one to secure something not fully human. Was Gilgamesh real? Was he entombed… or imprisoned? Did the U.S. military recover a relic, a body, or even a biological anomaly from a bloodline not of this Earth? And what if that tomb wasn't a tomb at all—but a Stargate?
From lost artifacts and satellite blackouts to Saddam Hussein’s obsession with divine bloodlines and the ancient gods, the evidence paints a chilling picture: sacred sites turned into military bases, ancient ziggurats blacked out from satellite view, and thousands of artifacts airlifted to undisclosed locations.
This isn’t speculation. It’s timeline. And it doesn’t add up.
Join us as we explore Gilgamesh, Uruk, Mesopotamia, and the global cover-up you were never meant to hear. Was the Iraq War the most expensive archaeological dig in human history? Let’s find out.
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