Look inside a fox burrow and you will find an ancient Sumerian port
Posted On: Jul 6th, 2018 at 13:40
Iraq
Look inside a fox burrow and what do you see?
An ancient port, fifteen feet (5m) deep and the size of more than nine Olympic swimming pools. Even Alice in Wonderland didn’t find such wonders down the rabbit hole.
That is exactly what happened in southern Iraq when archaeologists looked inside a fox hole and saw clay bricks that hinted of a structure, but no one could imagine what they would uncover.
The Italian team excavating the site not only found a harbour, but a canal that connected the harbour to the sea. But the astonishing thing is the sea is 200km away from the site, so how could there be a harbour at this desert site? The answer – the mighty rivers of ancient Iraq have deposited so much silt over the millennia, the sea is now at such a distance.
The article will reveal the rest of the details, but this discovery is one of the most remarkable this millennium, not only for its size but for its meaning – no Sumerian port has been discovered this far back in history…
Sumer is considered the first civilisation in history, in the context of what we would consider organised cities with specific facilities.
I have stated in many previous articles that I believe very strongly civilisation started in India, not with the Sumerians. For me there is a clue in this article which states, “The discovery confirms that the Sumerians, best known for creating one of the world’s earliest civilizations based on farming, had advanced seafaring skills too and were trading with distant lands, including the Indian subcontinent.”
The clue, of course, is in the last statement. Trading with India would mean only the Indus Valley civilisation, the place where I believe civilisation first started. Is it possible traders reached the Indus Valley culture and took these ideas to their own lands and built their own culture?
Mesopotamia is considered to have started “civilisation” around 6,000 years ago, but I believe in the Indus Valley civilisation it started as early as 8,000 years ago. Other findings have given other clues to this possibility. The 6,000-year-old sculpture of Lord Hanuman and Lord Rama found in Iraq shows a fully formed Hindu religion already in place at the time of the beginnings of Mesopotamian civilisation:
https://www.stephenmaybury.co.uk/6000-year-old-carving-of-lord-rama-and-lord-hanuman-found-in-iraq/
That discovery suggests something very profound – that India was indeed already highly advanced. And the location of the finding is also profound – Iraq and India were in communication 6,000 years ago.
But this port is only 4,000 years old, and the oldest known Sumerian port by a stretch. And that’s 2,000 years after the stone carving of Lord Hanuman and Lord Rama that was found in Iraq. Of course, this proves nothing in itself, but putting the pieces together slowly we can see that the Indus Valley culture is the likely source of civilisation – logical deduction makes the obvious conclusions.
