Where did the Sumerians come from?
The ancient Sumerians created one of humanity’s first great civilizations. Their homeland in Mesopotamia, called Sumer, emerged roughly 6,000 years ago along the floodplains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq and Syria. What did Sumerian invent? The wheel, plow, and writing (a system which we call cuneiform) are examples of their achievements….