Iraqi minister opens 7,000-year-old airfield airport

Did you read the title above and find it kind of weird about this 7, 000-year-old airfield inauguration talk? After all, the planes themselves only began to fly through the skies from the early 20th century. So who the hell was using the site for aircraft circulation 5, 000 years before Christ? According to Kadhem Finjan al-Hamami, Iraqi Transport Minister, the ancient Sumerians, hey!

The image is not there, but this one in the middle is the distinguished Iraqi Transport Minister

According to the Middle East Monitor portal, the statement came on October 1, while the minister was addressing the opening of a new airport south of Dhi Qar province. As he said, on the same site 7, 000 years ago, the Sumerians used to receive and send spacecraft to other planets - and cited the works of Russian Samuel Kramer, a renowned professor and expert in Ancient Sumer. Evidently the statement was a joke.

Cradle of humanity

According to April Holloway of the Ancient-Origns portal, the Sumerians were the first people to settle in Mesopotamia, more than 7, 000 years ago, establishing Sumer between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in a region that today corresponds to Iraq. . By the year 4000 BC, they had already developed an advanced writing system and become accomplished mathematicians, architects, and astronomers.

Example art created by the ancient Sumerians

And speaking of astronomy, according to April, there are records of the observations made by the ancient Sumerians between 3500 and 3200 BC For this people, astronomical events were incredibly important, as they associated the different planets with gods present in their religion and mythology - as was the case with Marduk, his chief deity and patron of the city of Babylon, which was represented in heaven by Jupiter.

Moreover, according to Samuel Kramer, the expert quoted by the Iraqi minister, the Sumerians were the first to tackle a number of areas of human knowledge, such as politics, philosophy, law, ethics, literature, agriculture, medicine, etc., so it was not. No wonder Ancient Sumer became known as the Cradle of Humanity.

Astronauts of the Past

Returning to al-Hamami's speech, he told those present that the first airports on earth would have been built in the fifth millennium before the birth of Jesus, more precisely in Dhi Qar. Also according to the minister, the Sumerians would have been the first to discover the dwarf planet Pluto and, as it were, they would be angels and sent spacecraft to other worlds.

There is no evidence that the ancient Sumerians were astronauts.

Interestingly, although the Iraqi minister mentions Kramer's work as the basis of his claims, the researcher never wrote about airports built by the ancient Sumerians, much less about his involvement with alien spacecraft.

Al-Hamami's statements were heavily criticized, of course, but some supporters of the ancient astronaut theories supported the minister. After all, for these people, Earth has been visited countless times by beings from other planets - who came here to make contact with humans - and ancient Sumer would have been one of the first destinations of the extraterrestrials. And you, dear reader, what do you think?