The Sumerians must have arrived in Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium, apparently from the southeast.

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Jean Bottero, Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods, trans. Zainab Bahrani and Mac Van De Mieroop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 68.

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