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The archaeological record of early writing is misleading, because people across the Middle East were sending each other messages long before the Sumerians.

Drawn from what Irving Finkel said

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Irving Finkel actually said

Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.

  1. Irving Finkel

    Assyriologist at the British Museum

    And my hunch is that the archaeological evidence that we have on this score is ultimately misleading, because I think this: that probably for a very, very long time before the Sumerians, people in the world, the world of what we call the Middle East, were in contact.

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