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Originally Posted by Farhad
interesting story, thanks. If you ask the question of what is the oldest text out there, it can get even more complex. There is some controversial evidence that parts of the rig-veda might be as old as 12'000 years (the iron age!) and yet this text itself was put in a written form much later, somewhere in the 4th, 5th or even 6th century. Fascinating, no?
cheers!
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Your dates are wildly inaccurate. 12000 years old was most certainly not "the iron age". The earliest evidence of iron smelting dates to about 1800BC (in India).