In the second episode of our #FacesoftheRepublic series, which we have prepared specially for the 100th anniversary of our Republic, we listened to the story of our world-famous Sumerologist Muazzez İlmiye Çığ herself. Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, who grew up with the values ​​of the Republic, told all the details of her journey to becoming a Sumerologist. The inspiring life story of Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, who has also presented the research and studies on Turkish conducted during the Republic period to our country throughout her life, is with you on İBB TV. Who is Muazzez İlmiye Çığ? Her family is originally from Crimean immigrants; her father migrated from Crimea to Amasya, Merzifon, and her mother from Crimea to Bursa. While her family lived in İzmir, they settled in Çorum, a safer place, following the occupation of İzmir on May 15, 1919. She started primary school in Çorum. Later, the family moved to Bursa. She took French and violin lessons at Bizim Mektep, a private school in Bursa. In 1926, she entered Bursa Kız Muallim Mektebin (Bursa Girls Teachers' School) by exam. She graduated in 1931 and was assigned to Eskişehir, where her father was also a teacher. She worked as a teacher in Eskişehir for 4.5 years. Meanwhile, her brother Turan İtil (1924-2014) went to America to become a brain surgeon. On February 15, 1936, she enrolled in the Hittitology Department of the Faculty of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University. She took Hittite Language and Culture courses from Prof. Dr. Hans Gustav Guterbock, who had defected to Turkey from Nazi Germany and was teaching at Ankara University, and Sumerian and Akkadian Languages ​​and Mesopotamian Culture courses from Prof. Dr. Benno Landsberger. After graduating from Ankara University in 1940, she was assigned to the Cuneiform Documents Archive of the Istanbul Ancient Orient Museum as an expert. She married Kemal Çığ that same year. During the 31 years she worked at the museum, together with her colleagues Hatice Kızılyay and Dr. FR Kraus, they cleaned, classified and numbered tens of thousands of tablets written in the Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite languages ​​in the museum's warehouse, created an archive of cuneiform documents consisting of 74 thousand tablets, and made copies of 3 thousand tablets and published them as a catalog. She attended the Orientalists Congress in Munich in 1957. She conducted a 6-month study at Heidelberg University in 1960. In 1965, she took the Hittite exhibition that was exhibited in Rome from that city to London. She retired in 1972. Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, who lived abroad for a while after retirement, attended the Assyriology Congress in Philadelphia in 1988. Prof. She translated Kramer's book History Begins at Sumer into Turkish and the book was published by the Turkish Historical Society in 1990 under the title "History Begins with Sumer." After the book received great attention, she wrote 13 books introducing Sumerian and Hittite cultures, including Journey to Sumer with a Time Tunnel for children in 1993. Muazzez İlmiye Çığ's private archive is in the Women's Works Library and Information Center Foundation. Faces of the Republic: https://l24.im/W7m4Ng You can subscribe by clicking on the link not to miss the new İBBTV videos: http://bit.ly/35xf1zw Also to follow İBBTV on other channels: Articles, programs and live broadcast: http://ibb.tv/ The most up-to-date content: twitter: / ibbtvcanli Facebook: / ibbtvcanli Instagram: / ibb__tv ◉ For our news: http://bit.ly/33kMWKb ◉ For our interviews: http://bit.ly/2roxsro ◉ Kültür İstanbul events: http://bit.ly/35KMxTd ◉ For our live broadcasts: http://bit.ly/33ikxog == ... It reaches Istanbulites. A media broadcaster that produces original news, documentary series and programs as a result of qualified research with the mission of being the first city television in order to understand and explain Istanbul.