4,000-year-old Sumerian port found in southern Iraq

Daily Sabah ^ | March 20, 2018 | DPA

[SunkenCiv]

Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia, an area of modern Iraq known as the cradle of civilization, more than 6,000 years ago, where they invented writing, the wheel, the plough, irrigation, the 24-hour day and the first city-states.

Mission co-leaders Licia Romano and Franco D'Agostino of Rome's Sapienza University said Tuesday they discovered one of their ancient ports in Abu Tbeirah, a desert site about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) south of the town of Nasiriyah.

The port's basin, measuring 130 meters (142 yards) in length and 40 meters (44 yards) wide, with a capacity equal to nine Olympics-sized pools, may have also served as a giant reservoir and as a tank to contain river flooding.

Its discovery suggests that Sumerian city-states remained connected to the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers until much later than previously thought, D'Agostino told DPA by phone.

It could also help archaeologists shed light on the great climate change shock of around 2200 BC that is presumed to have caused a huge drought in Mesopotamia, bringing about the end of the Sumerian civilization.

[SunkenCiv]

Archeologists uncovered traces of the roots of Sumer civilization in Turkey's Kahramanmaraş province during excavations in August 2017. (AA Photo)

[SunkenCiv]

Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations
The Telegraph (UK) | 11-04-2001 | Robert Matthews
Posted on 1/4/2002 1:50:09 AM by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/601395/posts

[Pontiac]

It could also help archaeologists shed light on the great climate change shock of around 2200 BC that is presumed to have caused a huge drought in Mesopotamia, bringing about the end of the Sumerian civilization.

Wow, Sumerian civilization was much more advanced than anyone thought!

Nobody knew that they used fossil fuels!

[Architect of Avalon]

It seems like they got displaced by the Akkadians.

[GOP Poet]

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[teeman8r]

Once the wheel was invented the next logical step was the infernal combustion engine and the SUV...

[PIF]

“Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia, an area of modern Iraq known as the cradle of civilization, more than 6,000 years ago, where they invented writing, the wheel, the plough, irrigation, the 24-hour day and the first city-states.”

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The fable for small children continues ...

[Pontiac]

Ah, the evil wheel.

If only people had to walk everywhere and carry all of there burdens themselves, the world would be such a better place.

[knarf]

The wheel, huh ?

Yeah ... I can dig it.

[fella]

Very interesting link.

[Wuli]

What is the publisher’s point of the article? The punch line? What’s the punch line? It’s the insertion of “climate change” into the article at the very end.

[jaz.357]

The Aztec invented the vacation!

[BenLurkin]

If that is a fable, then what is the truth?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Causes And Effects Of The
2350 BC Middle East Anomaly
Evidenced By Micro-debris Fallout,
Surface Combustion And Soil Explosion
by Marie-Agnés Courty
circa 1997

Occurrence in a previously recorded thick tephra deposit of particles identical to some of the mysterious layer and resemblance of its original pseudo-sand fabric with the exploded one of the mysterious layer confirms that the later is contemporaneous with the tephra deposit It has been however impossible to find typical tephra shards in sites located at a few km around the one with the tephra deposit The restricted occurrence of the later suggests that the massive tephra accumulation can no longer be considered as a typical fallout derived from the dispersion of material from a terrestrial volcanic explosion.

[SunkenCiv]

The Akkadians (the Assyrians during the phase when the capital was in Akkad or Agade) moved in, or grew in numbers, and adopted the cuneiform writing as well as the epics and folklore of the Sumerians. The Sumerian language is agglutinative, and a language isolate, being unrelated to any other known language. Besides adapting cuneiform to Akkadian and other languages, the Akkadians continued to learn and use Sumerian, implying ethnic fusion.

The Sumerians referred to themselves as "the black-headed people" (apparently in reference to their hair color) and believed themselves to have arrived by sea as colonists, at a very early date. They believed that all cities were founded by the gods, and neither the names of their cities (including, I see here, Agade) nor the major rivers were Sumerian names, or Semitic, but pre-existing, apparently the few reoorded fragments of whatever earlier language or languages (and hence peoples or cultures) predominated in the region prior to the arrival of the Sumerians.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks, more here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3641547/posts?page=15#15

[SunkenCiv]

That’s what gets the grants approved. :^)

[COBOL2Java]

Ah, the evil wheel.

If only people had to walk everywhere and carry all of there burdens themselves, the world would be such a better place.

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It was that Sumerian busybody Ishme-algor who gathered a contingent against using the wheel. Ishme-algor said its use brought the evil gods of bad climate to bring terror upon the lands.