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 ...

More SAN FRANCISCO — A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the ...

A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the reason for the Sumerian ...

He was considered the world’s leading expert on Sumerian, an ancient language of Mesopotamia. He also helped Anchor Brewing re-create a Sumerian beer.

Miguel Civil was a leading scholar of Sumerian, the world’s oldest written language. He was a longtime professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute. (Gonzalo Rubio) ...

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Sumerian is the earliest written language on record, with the first examples dating to about 3000 B.C.E. And it’s a dead language.

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SAN FRANCISCO — A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says.