Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Turkish sumerologist (1914–2024)
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, née Muazzez İlmiye İtil (20 June 1914 – 17 November 2024) was a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist. She was born in Bursa, Turkey. She works in the study of Sumerian civilization.
In 2006, at the age of 92, she received world-wide coverage in international media outlets when, upon publication of her 2005 book which described, among other topics, how her research into the history of the headscarf revealed that it did not originate in the Muslim world, but was worn five thousand years ago by Sumerian priests who initiated young men into sex.[1]
Çığ died on 17 November 2024, at the age of 110 years and 150 days. She was the oldest verified person in Turkey at the time of her death.[2][3]
References
change- ↑ "Muazzez Çığ stands among the world’s best Sumerologists" (Hürriyet Daily News, 14 November 2008)
- ↑ "Duayen Türk Sümerolog Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, 110 yaşında vefat etti". euronews. November 17, 2024.
- ↑ https://www.arkeolojikhaber.com/amp/haber-sumerologist-muazzez-ilmiye-cig-passed-away-at-the-age-of-110-40532/
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