Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...
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"This volume ... consists of facsimiles of tablets from the Nippur collection of the University ofPennsylvania. Dr. Samuel N. Kramer ... has ... grouped the plates in ...
ONE of the most interesting peoples of the ancient world was the Sumerian race, which founded the great civilisation of Babylonia. The cuneiform writing of western Asia was their invention, and the ...