posted on May, 16 2003 @ 10:27 PM
This is a load of bunk.
They found the first sources of Egyptian Writing, very basic carvings depicting where a battle happend, thought to be the battle between the first
Pharaoh uniting south and north.
Before that there was no writing, no stone work and hence, no archaelogical trace of them.
But after that writing appeared abruptly, as a system to collect taxes, such as ones twos, little pictures denoting what the tax was, grain,
From there the writing system advanced.
I don't see where the point of this article is, because no one knows where Vikings came from, where did the indus river valley peoples come from?
They seem to pop up over night because it is a quick transition in one thing.
The ability to write.
Because the northmen could not write down their history, as much as we know of them only comes from myth, comes from stuffs preserved in peat, mainly
burials in bogs.
And it is those subtle clues that we think we know what they were like, but like most things we must speculate as to how they came to be as we know
Because there was no writing.