Hi Glenn, you wrote:
>Your statement is at least 2 years out of date. There are at least two
>earlier contenders for the title of earliest writing;
>
>First, Egypt:
>
>Writing May Have Begun in Egypt - Archaeologists
Sounds tentative to me. Let's see if it makes it into the history books before
we jump off the Sumerian band wagon and onto an Egyptian band wagon.
If it turns out Sumerians were not the first to write, that's fine. They still
learned to write before the Accadians did. After all, that is the point I was
making. Are you questioning that?
Also, what happened to their writing? At the time Sumerians were writing
poetry, Egyptians were still making hieroglyphics.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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