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 ...
"This volume ... consists of facsimiles of tablets from the Nippur collection of the University ofPennsylvania. Dr. Samuel N. Kramer ... has ... grouped the plates in ...
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Who were the Sumerians really?

The Sumerians are often called the creators of the world’s first civilization. But where did they come from—and why does ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Sumerian code has been deciphered, revealing "divinely inspired" building instructions A Sumerian “sacred code” has been ...