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“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

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u/Non-Conventionnel-77 — 6 days ago
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''The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.'' — Rabindranath Tagore [850 x 400]

u/Non-Conventionnel-77 — 6 days ago
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First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought

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The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising archaeologists who made the discovery.

The researchers discerned patterns of meaning in lines, notches, dots, and crosses on objects like mammoth tusks as old as 45,000 years in caves in Germany.

Traditionally historians date the first written words to proto-cuneiform scripts made around 5,000 years ago in ancient Iraq, or Mesopotamia.

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