Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ

Turkish female sumerologist

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Bursa, Turkey

Profession: writer, historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, assyriologist

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Muazzez Ilmiye Çig, née Muazzez Ilmiye Itil, (born 20 June 1914, in Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes 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 priestesses who initiated young men into sex.