---------- > From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool said: > > > Troll, Both Egyptian and Chinese history goes back about 8000 years. > > I thought that the earliest known historical documents from Egypt > were the Early Dynastic palettes, such as the famous Narmer palette, > which shows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt and which dates > back to 3200BC. (There are some examples of Egyptian writing that are > perhaps a few centuries older, but so far as I know none that shed > any light on history.) > > The earliest Chinese writing that I know about are "oracle bones" > from the late Shang period in the second millennium BC.
Well if you mean writing. The sphynx is estimated as being 8000+ years ago. About 1-2000 years after the domestication of the cat. > And in an act of shameless self-promotion, I present: > > http://www.theculture.org/rich/sharpblue/archives/000147.html > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
