Sometimes we can't resist recording poetic moments that come to us unexpectedly and fascinate us.
I travel through this image to the ruins of an ancient temple recently discovered in the delta region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in present-day southern Iraq – where the ancient Sumerians lived.
Accompanied by a local guide, I escape the sweltering heat and enter what remains of a multi-storey ziggurat from the end of the third millennium BC, atop an artificial hill, where the Sumerians believed it was possible to communicate with the gods.
It is a ziggurat that includes another ziggurat inside and, in the latter, a hidden passage is discovered that gives us access to a vaulted chamber where golden dust hovers in the atmosphere illuminated through a hole in the dome through which some rays of sunlight radiate.
A hand tries to push aside a kind of veil that envelops the space. The transparency of the fabric allows you to see the red of flowers inside. Someone had been there recently and had also left an intense aroma of amber and resins.
The veil includes characters that are only visible when enlarged and with a certain incidence of light. They do not correspond to any known writing.
The guide believes this is something that predates cuneiform writing. Perhaps conveying an important message to a future civilization.
A riddle to be solved and perhaps a new adventure. A new beginning when everything seemed to have already been said.
