57: STORY OF THE GREAT LIES 2 The reasons for today's negative attitude towards Israel as a state and towards the Jews inhabiting this country lie in the distant past. However, without knowledge about the past millennia and the role of the Jewish nation that participated in these processes, it is impossible to understand and imagine the history of the peoples of the modern world. THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT LIES is a collection of selected works and essays by the author, telling about the causes and consequences of negative, false, slanderous fabrications to discredit the Jewish nation, which gave humanity the faith in a single God. At the beginning of the third millennium BC. in Mesopotamia, a new group appeared, calling themselves the Sumerians. They sailed on ships and settled in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing into the Persian Gulf. They built city-states: Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Eridu, Kish, Nippur, Larsa, and others. The Sumerians were not nomads. They built the first cities, dug irrigation canals, planted crops. There was a hypothesis that the Sumerians came from the Bahraini archipelago, where they lived for many centuries (it was not confirmed during excavations. Perhaps they came from the Indus River Valley in India, where the Indus River Valley was considered one of the first places where civilizations appeared on our planet. India gave the world a lot of knowledge in astronomy, mathematics, the decimal number system, wheel, metal and alloy processing, chemistry, and medicine. Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism originated in India. Gypsy and Aryan tribes (Indo-Iranians) came from India. The latter mastered the Caucasian regions and settled in northern Europe.