Sumerians are the ancient people who lived in the river banks of Euphrates and Tigris of ancient Mesopotamia (Modern Iraq).
Who Were The Sumerians?
The question about the ancient Sumerians’ ethnicity has been answered. Unfortunately, those who have answered the question may have overlooked certain facts and factors. These factors have to do with preconceived biases. One of the problems with making an intelligent and scientifically accurate assessment of the ethnicity of ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Olmecs, and others is that most of the research presented only gives partial information. What some people don't know is that people of the ancient world didn't always live in one confined region; they moved around and intermarried. A very common misconception that prevents most people from seeing clearly regarding the ancient Near East and its connection to the continent of Africa, etc. Is the most people still don't realize that Africans don't fit the stereotype of what has come to be called "African." In other words, Africans don't always have wide noses, thick lips, or course hair. This is significant because if all Africans don't have a typical "Negroid" look, then some ancient people who have been classified as non-African were in actuality African.
This may be difficult to fathom at first if an individual has been taught (or come to believe) the lie that all Africans have thick lips, wide noses, and course (tightly curled) hair with dark brown skin. The truth is Africans of West Africa, where most of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade took place, had very dark skin, wide lips, thick lips, and course hair; however, Africans of East Africa do NOT necessarily have these features. East Africans (from Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and Egypt) do not all look like Africans from West Africa. Museum curators and historians regularly make a distinction between their African exhibits and their Egyptian exhibits. Most (modern) historians have even decided to falsely classify Egypt as a part of the Middle East rather than a part of Africa like they should have done. To make matters worse, the people who currently live in the African country of Egypt don't recognize that Egypt is African and then call themselves "Egyptians." What some people don't know is that most of the people in Egypt today are not "Egyptian" ethnically, but they are actually Arabs who moved into the region and colonized the country. The Ethiopians and ancient Egyptians were related. This is attested in ancient texts. Even the ancient historian Herodotus said that the ancient Egyptians were black.
And he was not going just on what he heard; he visited ancient Egypt. Now most historians discount his report and an effort is being made to make the Ethiopian icons used in the Ethiopian Coptic Church look white.
The walls in the pyramids contain images of ancient Egyptians.
The papyrus scrolls contain images of ancient Egyptians.
And there are books with illustrations of ancient Egyptian boys having their heads shaved. The pictures on the pyramid walls, papyrus scrolls, and books show Egyptians of different shades (dark brown, brown, light brown, and light-skinned), with wooly hair, thin lips, and thin noses. An effort, with some success, was made by some archaeologists/historians to remove the color of these images. Some have cited that fact that Egyptians had thin lips and noses. But they failed to admit that it was common for East Africans to have thin lips and thin noses. When an ancient artifact of an Egyptian was discovered with a wide ("Negroid") nose or lips, the nose was chiseled off. The excuse for the broken noses was that the images either fell or were broken during excavation. This sounds reasonable until you visit a museum or take a closer look at a photo of some ancient Egyptian stone heads with broken noses. It is clear that some of the noses have been chiseled. A broken nose on a statue would not have identifiable chisel marks.
And in dealing with the subject of Africans in the ancient Near East (now called the "Middle East"), there is evidence that groups of people who were called Kushites (or Kushi) from north-eastern Africa also lived in the region now known as the Middle East. In the Bible, part of this (Middle Eastern) region was called Midian. There is even evidence that Kushites lived in Arabia and India in the Kush Mountains. More detailed information on the subject of how an ancient people came to be classified as non-African can be found by going to the online article on "Black Kushites of Sumer and Akkad – by – Clyde Winters Ph.D" (Submitted on 7/29/2010 by P. Hunter)
This may be difficult to fathom at first if an individual has been taught (or come to believe) the lie that all Africans have thick lips, wide noses, and course (tightly curled) hair with dark brown skin. The truth is Africans of West Africa, where most of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade took place, had very dark skin, wide lips, thick lips, and course hair; however, Africans of East Africa do NOT necessarily have these features. East Africans (from Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and Egypt) do not all look like Africans from West Africa. Museum curators and historians regularly make a distinction between their African exhibits and their Egyptian exhibits. Most (modern) historians have even decided to falsely classify Egypt as a part of the Middle East rather than a part of Africa like they should have done. To make matters worse, the people who currently live in the African country of Egypt don't recognize that Egypt is African and then call themselves "Egyptians." What some people don't know is that most of the people in Egypt today are not "Egyptian" ethnically, but they are actually Arabs who moved into the region and colonized the country. The Ethiopians and ancient Egyptians were related. This is attested in ancient texts. Even the ancient historian Herodotus said that the ancient Egyptians were black.
And he was not going just on what he heard; he visited ancient Egypt. Now most historians discount his report and an effort is being made to make the Ethiopian icons used in the Ethiopian Coptic Church look white.
The walls in the pyramids contain images of ancient Egyptians.
The papyrus scrolls contain images of ancient Egyptians.
And there are books with illustrations of ancient Egyptian boys having their heads shaved. The pictures on the pyramid walls, papyrus scrolls, and books show Egyptians of different shades (dark brown, brown, light brown, and light-skinned), with wooly hair, thin lips, and thin noses. An effort, with some success, was made by some archaeologists/historians to remove the color of these images. Some have cited that fact that Egyptians had thin lips and noses. But they failed to admit that it was common for East Africans to have thin lips and thin noses. When an ancient artifact of an Egyptian was discovered with a wide ("Negroid") nose or lips, the nose was chiseled off. The excuse for the broken noses was that the images either fell or were broken during excavation. This sounds reasonable until you visit a museum or take a closer look at a photo of some ancient Egyptian stone heads with broken noses. It is clear that some of the noses have been chiseled. A broken nose on a statue would not have identifiable chisel marks.
And in dealing with the subject of Africans in the ancient Near East (now called the "Middle East"), there is evidence that groups of people who were called Kushites (or Kushi) from north-eastern Africa also lived in the region now known as the Middle East. In the Bible, part of this (Middle Eastern) region was called Midian. There is even evidence that Kushites lived in Arabia and India in the Kush Mountains. More detailed information on the subject of how an ancient people came to be classified as non-African can be found by going to the online article on "Black Kushites of Sumer and Akkad – by – Clyde Winters Ph.D" (Submitted on 7/29/2010 by P. Hunter)
Sumerians are indeed the dark dravidians of india! It is them afro asiatic culture was the elamites who borrowed from the sumerians and also mostly likely moved to the indus valley along with the sumerians