Where did Sumerians come from?

In the end, we all come from Eastern Africa, of course. It is unlikely that all of the Sumerians’ ancestors lived in lower Mesopotamia all the time since the out-of-Africa migrations: most likely they are a mixture of different groups from Western Asia and maybe elsewhere. But we don’t really have good evidence for any specific, later migrations. read more

They literally had their own language that didn't seem to relate to any know speech from the area. It seemed like cuneiform was an already established form of writing for them. read more

Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. read more