An Iraqi Sumerian birth certificate over 4,000 years old, where this small piece written in cuneiform script represents details of the birth certificate of a child in the Sumerian era.

This document identifies the gender of the newborn and the name of the parents, in addition to a footprint of the child made of clay that represents a silent imprint of his foot, dating from about 2000 BC.

The piece of Iraqi origin was found in the historic city of Nippur in the Diwaniyah Governorate in southern Iraq and is currently displayed in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States of America and may be the oldest birth document known to the world and history.

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Salam Botros Haddad There is a theory that say the Sumerians, came originally from an older civilization called Dilmun, somewhere in the Arabian Gulf, and because of the big flood, most of them died, and a few migrated to south Mesopotamia, and established the Sumer civilization, and they were the first who wrote about the big flood. The museums in Bahrain tell the same story.

Annunziata Russo, Salam Botros Haddad it is possible this theory. Anyway Dilmun is located in Bahrain and in the marshed of south Iraq the houses are built in the same style of the sumerian ones.