Iraqi transport minister: Ancient Sumerians travelled space and discovered Pluto

‘Iraq’s Transport Minister Kazem Finjan has claimed that ancient Sumerians in Iraq invented space travel.
Finjan made the claim during a press conference in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. In a speech, he said that the ancient civilisation had built the world’s first airport in the area around 5,000 BC.
Finjan went on to claim that the airport had served as a hub for space exploration, and that the Sumerians discovered Pluto falsely claiming it to be the solar system’s “twelfth planet” and discovered by NASA.
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