Scientists still consider this ancient civilization the most mysterious page in history, because the discoveries only became the impetus for the emergence of new questions. The Sumerians could be the heirs of extraterrestrial gods or descendants of the Atlanteans, as well as preserve the ancient heritage of the mysterious culture of the Persians.
In the fourth millennium, the population of Mesopotamia looked in amazement at the "black-headed" people with unusual knowledge and technology. They quickly formed states on the territory of their new homeland, becoming the masters of this corner of the planet. The Sumerians knew astronomy, mathematics and writing 5000 years ago, and also knew how to process metals and treat ailments. Experts rack their brains, not knowing where a mysterious civilization could have come from, which left behind a small legacy for posterity.
Many traces of cultural heritage have disappeared among the new peoples of Mesopotamia, but even the surviving artifacts amaze specialists with their zest. Legendary cuneiform writing on clay tablets preserved the documents and legends of the people along with the lists of all the kings.
In addition, people used complex calculation systems when describing business expenses, but before that they used a simple five-fold analogue. No one knows why they decided to replace it with new formulas, and their homeland of Dilmun, which became the cradle of humanity, also does not coincide with a piece of land in the Persian Gulf, as some experts suggested.
All the structures of the Sumerians indicate that they came here from the mountainous regions.
Their real place of residence remains a mystery, as does the language, which is unlike all known analogues. It arose separately from evolution, but at the same time it was a convenient and practical way of communication. All ancient peoples spoke it until 2000, when the Akkadian dialect arose, but religion and science continued to use the old analogue.
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Linguists since the 19th century have put forward various theories, which were later refuted, since the population used homonyms to mean different things with different shades of sound. So far, scientists have been able to understand only 5500 words from the surviving rarities, but they are only a small part of the alphabet of the heroes of our history.
Undoubtedly, such riddles interested sensation lovers, one of whom was Platon Lukashevich. The ethnographer was friends with Nikolai Gogol and was poorly versed in the peculiarities of ancient peoples, having no information, so he decided to publish in 1846 a book dedicated to the sacred language of magicians and priests. He suggested that earlier the entire population of the planet had one dialect, which also applies to the Slavic language, which has preserved the roots of its ancestors.
Then there was a confusion of speech, which turned it into a mess, but the hero of our story decided to reject all the foundations of philology, after which he mixed the Sumerians with the Assyrians. Nikolai Morozov overshadowed his predecessor with his conclusions in 1931, reporting that ancient peoples did not exist at all, and the tables were written by the Byzantines in the 8th century to fight icon lovers. They did not want to use the church alphabet, so they resorted to secret signs. Then this "specialist" called the rulers of the country Romans and mythical characters, especially disliking Hammurabi, referring him to the biblical patriarchs.
In the 20th century, a version of Zachary Sitchin appeared, who published several books on the extraterrestrial origin of the Sumerians. He colorfully described all the highlights of the planet Nibiru, from where the god Marduk appeared to them, while observing the movements of Jupiter. Powerful beings lived there, who created man for slavery in the mines. This people was a descendant of the creators who passed on various secrets to their children.
Then some of the similar stories ended up in the Bible, but at first the ideas of the independent expert were condemned by scientists. They accused the person of misinterpreting the texts, noting that in that era gold was not a valuable metal, and therefore could not be mined in large quantities. Here are just the mention of the celestials was really in the documents, but they were not called by name and were attributed to the gods who have little influence on people.
After lengthy discussions, astronomers found a mysterious celestial body that appears in the solar system every 3600 years, but the Sumerians described only 5 planets instead of 12 analogues. While experts denied information about the Chinese and Indian roots of civilization, hypotheses about the rescued inhabitants of Atlantis were put forward. While this version is also in question, but before the Sumerians on this land there were ancient ubaids who left their artifacts in Iraq.
At first, archaeologists did not pay attention to the unusual features of the ceramics of the disappeared people, but then they found many objects that became an impetus for the wisdom of the guests who came. Unfortunately, scientists have almost no information about the culture of the predecessors of the Sumerians, preserved in the names of cities and tablets with signs of ancient people. A similar situation arose from the Romans, who borrowed the heritage of the Etruscans, so that new studies of Mesopotamia could reveal the secrets of a mysterious civilization or again lead the luminaries of science to a dead end.
Reshetnikova Irina