Sumerians built world's first airport in Iraq 7,000 years ago: minister

Says airport was built by ancient Sumerians who used it to travel to Pluto in spaceships

Iraq’s transport minister has said that the world’s first airport was built there 7,000 years ago. But that is not all.



He extraordinarily claimed that ancient Sumerians, one of the oldest known societies, used it to travel to Pluto in spaceships. “The first airport that was established on planet earth was in this place,” said the minister, referring to Dhi Qar in southern Iraq. "The ancient civilisation of Sumer used the airport for space exploration and even discovered Pluto," Kazem Finjan said.

The minister also reportedly claimed that the angels “were all Sumerian” and “Sumerian spaceships used to launch from here [Dhi Qar] towards other planets.”

It is widely believed that the Sumerians settled in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, now south Iraq, in 5500 to 4000 BC, where they developed agriculture, trade and artisan skills such as weaving, metalwork and pottery.



The New Arab reported that Finjan referred to the work of Russian professor and Sumerian expert Samuel Kramer, who studied the civilisation’s creation myths and wrote about their understanding of the solar system.

Many ancient ruins are found in Dhi Qar, such as the Sumerian cities of Eridu and Ur, home to ancient temple the Ziggurat of Ur, which was excavated in the 1930s and has since been partially restored.

This article originally appeared on The Independent