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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
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- 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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