It is of considerable interest to trace where the ancient Sumerians arose from due to their primary contribution to human civilization. It was suggested that the Sumerians appeared in southern Mesopotamia some five and a half thousand years ago, carrying the seeds of civilization with them. It was also suggested that they emigrated from the west coast of India. The fact that they were not a local people is suggested by the fact that their language belongs to a completely different and isolated group. There are two other lines of research that can be adopted to confirm this hypothesis. The first is to explore other groups in India with similar language and the second is to carry out a physical examination of the Sumerian skeletons available today for racial similarities.
In western India there are a number of tribal groups that have existed since ancient times. Today, many live on the fringes of dominant communities such as those that exist in India today. The dominant communities belong to the Indo-Aryan or Dravidian language groups. Sumerian doesn’t belong either. As for the tribal, it is now useless to look for similarities between Sumerian and current tribal languages in India because for thousands of years their original languages have disappeared due to the overwhelming influence of other languages. Western Indian tribal communities now speak modified versions or mixtures of the main languages. However, all is not lost because although the tribes in India such as Kols and Bheels have been overly influenced, it is not so with some of their branches that migrated further east towards Australia in ancient times, and form a branch of the same human groups. . . Then you can look for similarities between the Sumerian and Austrian languages. In fact, this study has already been done and the consensus is resounding, yes. Austrian languages are in fact similar to ancient Sumerian. The similarities are so numerous and clear that they are beyond doubt or the result of a chance coincidence. (The Austric Origin of the Sumerian Language, Language Form, vol. 22, no. 1-2, January-December 1996.)
Therefore, it can now be said with confidence that Ancient Sumerian is not a linguistic isolate. It belongs to the Australoid / Austrian group of languages. They belong to this group because the ancient tribal peoples on the west coast of India also belonged to the same group of people, and it is from here that they must have migrated to Mesopotamia. Both the Australoid and Austrian types are found in India. There are clear reasons to rule out any other location for Sumerian migration: Western India is geographically close to southern Mesopotamia compared to Southeast Asia and Australia, and there are no known cases of civilization east of the Indus Valley some time ago. five thousand years. Such evidence has been found in the Indus Valley.
The second study concerns the physical examination of the Sumerian skulls. Buxton and Rice have discovered that of 26 Sumerian skulls they examined, 22 were Australoid or Austrian. Furthermore, according to Penniman, who studied skulls from other Sumerian sites, the Euro-African, Austrian, and Armenian Australoids were the “racial” types associated with the Sumerians. Here is Penniman’s description of the Austrian type found in Sumer:
“These people are of medium height, with complexions and hair like those of the Euro-Africans, whose race they are allied with with dark eyes and oval faces, wide noses, rather weak jaws and slender, wiry bodies.”
This description also closely describes the actual person seen on a famous clay tablet from the Indus Valley. This same tribe in an evolved version undoubtedly established the Indus as well as the Sumerian civilization after the collapse of its coastal cities. In northwestern India they would have encountered Neolithic people of Indo-European origin with whom they established the Indus cities. An analysis of skeletal remains from the Indus Valley confirms this mixture. Both the Indo-Sumerian-Austrian language must have persisted side by side as in Mesopotamia, the official language of the rulers being Indo-Sumerian-Austrian. As in Mesopotamia, ancient Sumerian was replaced by the language of the majority (Akkadians) in the Indus Valley, eventually it would have been replaced by an Indo-Aryan language. It is not known with certainty at what precise moment in history this occurred, but it is most likely that the Sumerian language disappeared from India in 2000 BC. In the latter case it was not a question of keeping it for ritual purposes either. This is because the Indo-Sumerian-Austrian language never developed as a fully written language in India to inscribe full texts. In any case, a better Indo-Aryan language soon emerged with its own full-blown script, probably due to Hittite influences on the Indian subcontinent at that time.
Contribution of Armenians to ancient civilization
In the Indus Valley, from which the Sumerians arose, there were other tribes who lived very close to the Austrian Sumerians. These were prehistoric Indo-Aryan tribes of Armenian origin, followers of the god Ara. The Indo-Aryans were light-skinned and light-haired. Hence the reason why the Indo-Sumerians label themselves dark-headed compared to the glowing Ara people. The Sumerians also began using the word Ara for righteous and brilliant and eventually labeled all Indo-Aryan people as Ara or Arya. The Armenian word has its origin in AR-MA, that is, the children of Ara and Ma, the goddess of fertility.
Later Indo-Aryan migrations from around 1500 BC to the Indus regions were apparently of Hittite origin. Apparently some mixed marriages also took place between these Indo-Sumerians and Armenians, which probably led to a more vigorous community than would have otherwise been possible. A physical marriage also resulted in a marriage of the religious traditions of the Sumerian and Armenian tribes, as well as the Sumerian language influenced by Armenian. These influences can be found by comparisons between Armenian (or even Hungarian that arose from Old Armenian) and the Sumerian language. Are was the Sun God and the roots of sun worship in the world seem to be of Aryan rather than Sumerian origin.
Archaeologists refer to the Transcaucasus region, including modern Armenia, as the oldest known prehistoric culture in the area, carbon-dated to approximately 6000-4000 BC. A recently discovered tomb dates from 9000 BC. Another early culture in the Armenian highlands and surrounding areas, the Kura-Araxes culture, is assigned the period of ca. 4000 – 2200 BC. Armenians are one of the oldest Indo-European subgroups. Therefore, it is not surprising that among the Aryans it was the Armenians who first spread through the ancient world of Mesopatomia and the Indus Valley. The Hittite Aryans who became more powerful than the Armenians around 1500 BC. C. were close neighbors and racial cousins of the Armenians, sometimes clashing with them and sometimes coexisting, but probably winning the interaction at all times.
Buxton and Rice have found that of 26 Sumerian skulls they examined, 22 were Australoid or Austrian and four were Armennoid. Furthermore, according to Penniman, who studied skulls from other Sumerian sites, the Euro-African, Austrian, and Armenian Australoids were the “racial” types associated with the Sumerians. Certainly, it cannot be confirmed without further investigation whether the Sumerian-Armenian alliance took place on Sumerian or Indian soil. It is also not sure if it was forced or voluntary. Fair-skinned Armenian ladies probably found the Sumerians with the broad, dark noses ugly. However, it can be deduced that the first Sumerians who introduced civilization to our world were about 85% Austrians and 15% Armenian Aryans.
It is surprising that one of the most important contributions to humanity comes from the Austrian / Australoid races. Elsewhere, their contribution has not been notable. However, apparently a small genetic change is all that is needed for this achievement. Similar breeds have shown that this can happen elsewhere as well. An example of that is Cambodia’s Angkor Vat which illustrates technical mastery on an unprecedented scale, standing out for its architectural and artistic perfection, not to mention its sheer size, Angkor Vat is the most famous and certainly the most remarkable of all. the ancient temples. with extraordinary architectural and artistic innovations, one of the greatest achievements of mankind.