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255 - Ancient Aliens and Ancient Sumerians

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Dead Language of Sumerian

Around four thousand years ago, after such a prolific period of wrioting and doing so much, this great civilization and its language died out. The acadian tongue would also go on to become a dead language. So how have we learned much about a culture with a dead language that was replaced by another culture with another dead language? Exceptionally talented linguistic scholars, code breakers, really, like spain's miguel civil, used their big brains to figure shit out for the rest of us who would never take the time to do so.

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