Most people don't know it, but there is a far older piece of educed audio being circulated, but only amongst scholars of ancient civilizations.

In 2008 an archaeologist named Manuela Correia was searching for lost artifacts in the Southwest Palace of King Sennacherib, the location that the Library of Ashurbanipal was discovered at. The expedition was a success, as 32 tablets were discovered together in a chest that was buried under fifteen feet of earth.

The tablets seemed to have come from different sources, but in general were from the Neo-Assyrian period and seemed to be contemporary with the famous library. The earliest date that could be identified was from around 648 BC, as it mentions the consequences of the rebellion of Shamash-shum-ukin as a recent event. The tablets were often cracked and worn which rendered much of them unreadable, but it was clear that they had a common theme. They appeared to be the work of scribes sent by Ashurbanipal to collect information on ancient lore and history from the Babylonian region.

The texts told of a figure named Ramaash of Susa, a highly enigmatic figure in science and philosophy of the Ancient Near East comparable to Pythagorus. This comparison is very apt because like the Greek, he had a cult that followed his teachings very closely and resembled later esoteric traditions such as freemasons and rosicrucians. After an analysis and translation of the tablets in the chest, one of them was discovered to be the earliest educed piece of audio yet discovered, an ancient engraving of Ramaash's own voice. The only other source discovered that mentions Ramaash is an obscure manuscript by Athenian historian Praxagoras, which also unfortunately happens to be incomplete.

By combining the ancient tablets and Praxagoras's manuscript, this is what is known of Ramaash:

Ramaash of Susa arrived in Babylonia during the late reign of Hammurabi, somewhere around 1760 BC. No notes of his origin have survived aside from the assumption that he had been born in Susa due to his name.

His teachings on religion and science were startling for their time and place. He taught that the Babylonian deities were created for nothing but control, and that the only true God in the world was named Kho. Kho was a being of evil who was older than time itself and inhabited every misery and misfortune in the world. Ramaash believed that Kho lived in all things and was responsible for the underlying horribleness and tragedy of the universe.

Unlike the Gods commonly revered in Babylonian, Akkadian, and Sumerian cultures, Kho had no form or likeness. His only visual representation was all-encompassing nothingness. According to one of the tablets, Ramaash believed Kho was beyond form. This was intentional so that he could never be seen or even imagined by human perception, for if humans were to do so it would surely spell their eternal doom. It was also said that Kho was the one who cloaked the world in night every evening. When people slept he would sweep through the landscape out beyond the limits of our sight and put vicious beasts and horrible monstrosities in the world as punishment for people's belief in and worship of other Gods.

Ramaash espoused the belief that Babylonia was a plague on humankind, and that only the recognition and fear of Kho would save humanity. Unlike other gods though, Kho apparently despised religious rituals and piety, instead urging humans to try to comprehend the world around them through philosophy, science, technology, and mathematics. Ramaash claimed that Kho despised humanity because humanity had the potential "to be as gods" if they exercised their minds but never did so. He further claimed that in the near future, humanity would be judged by Kho, and gave a frightening apocalyptic prediction for what would happen if people continued to practice religion at the expense of knowledge.

He claimed that the earth would be cast into a void of darkness for the rest of eternity, and in darkness all the plants and animals would perish, and water would turn to "the bitter pus of beasts". Then when all was dead and empty, plants with stinging thorns and poisonous odors would spring from the soil, "and spill the black and bitter blood of the earth". From the ends of the horizons huge monstrosities beyond the limits of human imagination would be spawned and would lay siege to the cities and devour their inhabitants.

Humans would be kept alive for this eternal punishment due to their wickedness, but they would still feel the pain of a thousand deaths. They would feel the pangs of starvation, their flesh being ripped by vultures, their entire bodies devoured by monsters, their lungs closed by suffocating aromas, and their insides melted by poisonous fruits, but would live forever with only more suffering to look forward to.

The citizens of Babylonia scorned Ramaash for his impiety, and Hammurabi quickly banished him from teaching in the town square. However, he managed to gain a small but extremely dedicated band of followers who continued to meet him in the wilderness on the outskirts of the city. In this removed area, his followers built a temple in the shape of a large dome. Here they were free to practice Ramaash's highly advanced science and engineering. Ramaash was interested in representing aspects of nature through mathematics, algorithms, and diagrams.

Like the secret societies of modern day, their work was protected vigilantly from outsiders, so his teachings remain mostly unknown. However, around 1742 BC, after the death of Hammurabi and subsequent inheritance of Babylonia by his son Samsu-iluna, Ramaash's followers took advantage of the disarray that fell over Babylonia and returned to the town square. Here, Ramaash explained that society was doomed to never understand the truth, that the only things that are sacred and eternal are death, suffering, and nothingness. He then added Kho would soon send a reign of darkness over Babylonia and the wicked earth it begat, bowed his head, and chanted something in a language no one understood. After this he slit his own throat with a piece of sharpened metal and fell to the ground.

The artifacts remaining in the meeting place of Ramaash's followers were then taken to the city for research, although what remained was mostly inconsequential. None of their esoteric doctrine survived. One of only remnants was an engraving that managed to function as an extremely primitive spectrogram, and another slab explaining it as such, both of which wound up in the chest unearthed by Manuela Correia. The explanation that accompanied this "spectrogram" only stated the following, roughly translated into English:

Here lies the voice of Ramaash, the most wise and most [inquired?] of the accursed city

clay lives eternally the wicked city Babylon

Hail Kho and [repent?]

It makes no mention of the method used to capture Ramaash's vocal tones. This knowledge died with his followers and continues to baffle scholars.

Recently however, the engraved slab that Ramaash used to save his voice for future generations has been translated into audio by experts in a similar field as Patrick Feaster, the man primarily responsible for this collection. This is the yielded result:

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