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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A scribe who does not know Sumerian, what kind of scribe is he? The motto of this text is actually a quotation from a proverb collection and highlights the importance of the knowledge of Sumerian for ...

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