combat appearing in Sumerian depictions from earliest times and suggested that these motifs represented the key positions of the constellations of Taurus bull and Leah lion to an observer at 30 degrees north such as at a circa 4000 BC most scholars consider the Sumerian stress of Taurus as their first constellation as evidence not only of the antiquity of the zodiac dating to circa 4000 BC but also as testifying to the time when Sumerian civilization so suddenly began professor Jeremiah's found evidence showing that the sumerian