Where did the Sumerians originally 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 is Sumer called today? Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between…