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P.860 - §2 And all this explains how the Sumerians
appeared so suddenly and mysteriously on the stage of action in Mesopotamia.
Investigators will never be able to trace out and follow these tribes back
to the beginning of the Sumerians, who had their origin two hundred thousand
years ago after the submergence of Dalamatia. Without a trace of origin
elsewhere in the world, these ancient tribes suddenly loom upon the horizon
of civilization with a full-grown and superior culture, embracing temples,
metalwork, agriculture, animals, pottery, weaving, commercial law, civil
codes, religious ceremonial, and an old system of writing. At the beginning
of the historical era they had long since lost the alphabet of Dalamatia,
having adopted the peculiar writing system originating in Dilmun. The Sumerian
language, though virtually lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much
in common with the so-called Aryan tongues. |
