Ancient DNA Proves Where the Sumerians Really Came From — And Nobody Saw It Coming

Ancient DNA Proves Where the Sumerians Really Came From — And Nobody Saw It Coming The red clay of southern Iraq held a secret that baffled every historian who ever lived for six thousand years. When the world was still trapped in the Stone Age, a mysterious people emerged in Mesopotamia, building towering ziggurats and inventing the world’s first written language. They called themselves the Black-Headed People, but we know them as the Sumerians. Where did they come from? For centuries, science was blind. Then, the ancient DNA spoke.