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40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language | Open Culture | Old symbols, Stone age art, Stone age
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40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

We may take it for granted that the earliest writing systems developed with the Sumerians around 3400 B.C.E. The archaeological evidence so far supports the theory. But it may also be possible that the earliest writing systems predate 5000-year-old cuneiform tablets by several thousand years.
Rachel Simoons
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