[tarheelswamprat]

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.”

thsr: you forgot the most important one - beer!

PIF: The fable for small children continues ...

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

According to the Sumerians' own writings, they didn't invent the things listed above - the knowledge was given to them by beings that came down from the sky, whom they called annunaki.

[BenLurkin]

You don’t buy into the Annunaki nonsense, surely.

[SunkenCiv]

Sumerian Brewing Co.
http://sumerianbrewingco.com/

[Architect of Avalon]

The Sumerians seem to have originated in what is now called Iran before going into what is now called Iraq.

They may have gotten various things from a culture that preceded them in Iran.

Add centuries, and that culture may have become portrayed as gods in Sumerian literature.