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MortalWombat · 09-26-2003, 08:12 AM

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Originally posted by Mageth
Probably written shortly before the Flood...

I am curious as to whether that's truly a translation off an ancient stone tablet or merely apocryphal, so I did a little web search. The only site I found (this site) that sources the quote at all says it was "reported in The Sciences, July/August 1994".

Then I found the quote on bartleby. From there, "Both of the above quotations would seem to be spurious." I think that's probably correct.

So it's funny, but probably not true.

The thing that kind of stands out to me is that 2800 BC is a bit early for written Assyrian. Assyrian is a semitic language, derived from Akkadian. Akkadians borrowed writing from the Sumerians around 2500 BC.

Take a look here for the development of Semitic languages.

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