Sep 1, 2019
Around 6,500 years ago statues depicting two-headed conjoined twins or hermaphrodite beings sharing a body were constructed in the βAin Ghazal near Jordan (as depicted left). Around 6,000 years ago the Al Ubaid peoples who were traveling nomads created the Eridu settlement (ruins of which depicted bottom central) they bought with them statuette carvings and depictions of their mother Goddess Ishtar (depicted central and right) these people would eventually expand their territory and become the Sumerian peoples. Animal hide drums would also be invented around this time although percussion instruments in general are much older.
