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Research has indicated the presence of Black migrants from the African Nile Valley in Ancient Sumer.
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Research has indicated the presence of Black migrants from the African Nile Valley in Ancient Sumer. The region comprising of Sumer was the Tigris Euphrates river valley from the base of the Persian Gulf to the Akkad in the North. While the people of Sumer did not belong to any particular racial group; the Sumerian civilization flourished with the arrival of Black migrants from Africa's Nile Valley. The Sumerians referred to themselves as the "blackheads" in their writings and were one of the many Nilotic Kushite colonies residing in early Asia. Anthropological evidence of bone structure supports African presence in this region. Sumer consisted of a large number of independent city states. These city states often combined to form larger kingdoms led by leaders who were thought to be of divine origin. The Third Dynasty of Ur was one such example covering an area of four square miles,...
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