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3. TIME LINE
2200 - 1000 BC
Vedic Period in India? No written scriptures existed till second century BC The following time line indicates how various cultures communicated their spiritual
and religious thoughts through expressive documentations thus defining them.
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
AVAZIN
TIL
The letters in a Semitic language, carved in stone cliffs west of the Nile, were found by Yale University Egyptologist, Dr John Darnell. He says they are nearly 4,000 years old, dating from around 1800 to 1900 BC.
THE HIEROGLYPHICS, AND THE LANGUAGE AND RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT. = HIEROGLYPHS symbols on Gerzean pottery resemble hieroglyphic writing. 4000 BC
Narmer Palette 3200 BC Earliest known hieroglyphic inscription was the Narmer Palette, at Hierakonpolis dated 3200 BC.
