It's just odd to me, when we discuss the "ancient" world that negates the actual "ancient." Meaning, the ancients to the ancients, is very much ancient, so why omit this. Not thumbing my nose. Not aiming for disrespect, but rather raising that needed question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer. I simply consider the war on Iraq, Texas, Southern Confedracy, and "Whitism" among which the "Uncle Tomism" coincides. Far removed from matters of actual civilization, but when we all need to pretend. A checkered floor for those of a design, among rigors of process, that need to be all caught up in matters of category (The struggle is real, and the creatives, the intellectuals, the calico cat of love, all caught up in the cross hairs, caught up, among the divide as all unite for a better utopic tomorrow that works so well in gunning down what the irrationalists working a cross a divide hate, these bleeding, creative hearts & intellectual minds orienting toward process rather than the mindless goosestep of embodiment...that bullshit), and yet among the minds of rigor, of a diversity, there has always remained the chrysalis of civilization, the ways in which the process interacts, among which the leaders valuing a meeting of the mind first and foremost, regardless of the superficial mirror play, like the people of the United States today, of actual leadership, representing a calico cat of love, a layering, a beautiful mess, among a complexity of process interacting, of how matters actually manifest, despite the absurd plays of silhouette in motion, disneyfied hist-tory on the racism plan, that needed checkering of understanding, that needed grid, dichotomies striving to improve in such a way that reinforces the needed divide that kills the one they hate, so these fine nice-nothings, mickey hands, can spin the intelligence and take aim at these poor dears that need to be caught up among the synthetic divide...Oh look, it's a body in the mirror...they might be racist...gun for that bleeding heart, poor dear, all caught up, misfortunate event, candle light vigil, and the bleeds it leads headline, serving the apathetic nice-nothing fuzzy love-nothing fuckfest of care tuning in to their television screens. Rinse and repeat. It's so sad what's happening because we all care so FUCKING much. Let's not pretend. All needs to serve a checkered foundation, including written record.
Let us Consider...
Anu ziggurat and White Temple at Uruk. The original pyramidal structure, the "Anu Ziggurat", dates to around 4000 BC, and the White Temple was built on top of it c. 3500 BC.[45] The design of the ziggurat was probably a precursor to that of the Egyptian pyramids, the earliest of which dates to c. 2600 BC.
And when we consider Egypt in relation to the Greek identity, of which I consider the US colonies to London...Shhh....open up your books and let's pretend. Paper bag over the head...
"Black Headed Ones", the native designation for the Sumerians. The first is the pictographic character for "head" (
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Others have suggested that the Sumerians were a North African people who migrated from the Green Sahara into the Middle East and were responsible for the spread of farming in the Middle East.[23] However, contrary evidence strongly suggests that the first farming originated in the Fertile Crescent.[24] Although not specifically discussing Sumerians, Lazaridis et al. 2016 have suggested a partial North African origin for some pre-Semitic cultures of the Middle East, particularly Natufians, after testing the genomes of Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture-bearers.[24] Craniometric analysis has also suggested an affinity between Natufians and ancient North Africans.[25]
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