Well ... the things you think you knew but really didn't. I had learnt that the Sumerians were an isolated people with no connection language wise to any other race. Seems I was in error. Here is an article from 1996, not a recent one, and here is a bit of what it says ,,,

... Therefore now it may be said with confidence that ancient Sumerian is not a linguistic isolate. It belongs to the australoid/ austric group of languages. They belong to this group because the ancient tribal people of Indian west coast also belonged to the same group of people, and it is from here that they must have migrated to Mesopotamia. Both the Australoid and Austric type are found in India. There are clear reasons to rule out any other location for the Sumerian migration: Western India is geographically close to Southern Mesopotamia as compared to south East Asia and Australia and there are no know instances of civilization east of the Indus valley around five thousand years ago. Such evidence has been found in the Indus valley.

The second study concerns physical examination of Sumerian skulls. Buxton and Rice have found that of 26 Sumerian crania they examined 22 were Australoid or Austrics. Further According to Penniman who studied skulls from other Sumerian sites, the Australoid Eurafrican, Austric and Armenoid were the “racial” types associated with the Sumerians. Here is Penniman’s description of the Austric type found at Sumer:

The article: [www.armeniapedia.org]

The author:


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Ashok Malhotra is an academic (former faculty and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi, UBC Canada and University of Mosul. Iraq) and mystic spiritualist. He is an author of educational and technical books and widely cited scientific research papers. Aside from being on the faculty of some of the leading universities of the world as mentioned, he has also been the former Director of some reputed university level Institutes of Engineering in India. He has deep interests in spiritual development Here are some of his personal comments:-

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and further study ...

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Hmm I wonder if the wars with the Vimanas involved any Sumerian gods ?

And The Vedas [en.wikipedia.org]

Sacred hymns, which are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. There are four Vedas, and these constitute the Hindu canon (but they are largely religious scriptures, some telling it to be God's words). Each Veda has four subdivisions – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices), and the Upanishads (texts discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge).

They also talk about the wars of The Gods, very similar to Sumerian stories ... I wonder ...

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