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 ...

Any decade now, the Sumerian Dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania will be finished. “Some days they ask me,” Ake Sjoberg says, “which volume do I want for a memorial?” ...

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