Does anyone know the reason why the Sumerians were called the "Black Headed People?"

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.


Because they had long, black hair that they wore in oiled ringlets.

Do you have any scholarship to support that? I think you are right but just saying that without any scholarship really means nothing.

Do you have any scholarship to support that? I think you are right but just saying that without any scholarship really means nothing.


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In this google book, the Akkadians were called "black-headed" people, not the Sumerians:

[link to books.google.com]

The sculptures of this period distinguish sharply between the ethnological types of the Sumerians and Akkadians. The Sumerians shaved their heads and their faces, while the Akkadians wore long hair and full beards and mustaches. Hence the phrase "black-headed ones" originated in this period as a description of the Akkadians in contrast to the Sumerians. Semitic kings say that the gods have given them sovereignty over the "black-headed ones".

Semitic kings say that the gods have given them sovereignty over the "black-headed ones".

I don't see in the book where it says that.



In this google book, the Akkadians were called "black-headed" people, not the Sumerians:

[link to books.google.com]

The sculptures of this period distinguish sharply between the ethnological types of the Sumerians and Akkadians. The Sumerians shaved their heads and their faces, while the Akkadians wore long hair and full beards and mustaches. Hence the phrase "black-headed ones" originated in this period as a description of the Akkadians in contrast to the Sumerians. Semitic kings say that the gods have given them sovereignty over the "black-headed ones".

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.


Because they had long, black hair that they wore in oiled ringlets.

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.

I don't see in the book where it says that.



In this google book, the Akkadians were called "black-headed" people, not the Sumerians:

[link to books.google.com]

The sculptures of this period distinguish sharply between the ethnological types of the Sumerians and Akkadians. The Sumerians shaved their heads and their faces, while the Akkadians wore long hair and full beards and mustaches. Hence the phrase "black-headed ones" originated in this period as a description of the Akkadians in contrast to the Sumerians. Semitic kings say that the gods have given them sovereignty over the "black-headed ones".




Page 290; second paragraph in the left column.

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.


OP...black people were the only people on the face of the earth in the beginning.

hence...black headed people.

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.

I could never get a clear cut answer to this. Does anyone know and if so can you provide some scholarship on it? Thanks.


Sumer or Sumerians are pure invention. They never existed except in the head of some sick minded Jew scholars.

The Chaldeans were called that way by their goddess ISHTAR

OP...black people were the only people on the face of the earth in the beginning.

hence...black headed people.