A clay tablet in northern Iraq. A cave everyone assumed was just a Neanderthal site. Inside, the first genetic samples ever pulled from early Neolithic Mesopotamia. For almost two centuries the textbook on Sumerian origins said one thing. The 2022 Harvard study said something else entirely. The mountains the Sumerians kept naming in their own texts turned out to be more than poetic flourishes. They were memory. This is the part nobody is talking about.
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