Anunnaki Lands in the Ancient Near East

<p>There were talented and dexterous people living in what is now southern Iraq during the time of Sumer. Humankind's first known civilization arose in the fertile plain irrigated by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers some 6000 years ago suddenly unexpectedly and with stunning abruptness according to researchers.</p><p>It was a society to which we owe virtually every 'First' of what we consider essential to an advanced society:</p><p>For example the wheel and wheeled transportation; brick which made (and still makes) high-rise buildings; furnaces and kilns which are vital to industries from baking to metallurgy.</p><p> In Sumer astronomy mathematics cities and urban societies kingships and laws temples and priesthoods calendars festivals recipes art artifacts and above all writing and record-keeping are all firsts. They were the first to record and describe past events and tell tales of their gods through artful statues and statuettes depicted in a devotional stance.</p>