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Truth? Who knows. Unless you imagine that a bunch of herders/nomads suddenly appeared out of nowhere and decided to settle in one spot, magically making them all geniuses who invented a seemingly endless list of things which laid the foundations of civilization. Fables generally speaking involve magical thinking - thus the Sumerian Fable or better yet the lie that became a meme. To get there you have you ignore the early history of India in the Mahabharata (dismissed by westerners as fiction consisting of 1.8 million words), as well as Göbekli Tepe which itself is some 6000 years older (dismissed as an anomaly). Not to mention the huge pyramids in South America which are larger and older than the Old Kingdom ones on Giza. Just ignore the previous two sentences as I'm just making this up because I'm not an Authority. Why ignore all of the above? Because it is easier to propound a stable picture of human history, than a chaotic one. Chaos is bad for business, looks bad on a doctoral thesis, and is totally unacceptable in peer review papers - since the peers have finances and reputations at stake in the status quo being stable. Move along now. Ignore anything someone who is not an authority tells you, no matter the images or the facts - they are just making it up because they are jealous of real academics who only tell the absolute historical and scientific truth, as is well known, since they have all the documents (which you do not and are incapable of understanding if you had them). Do not accuse them of ignoring, dismissing, or hiding anything! Not ever!