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Archaeologists uncover potential earliest signs of writing, dating back 45,000 years, challenging the long-held belief that writing began around 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. These Stone Age symbols, found on artifacts like mammoth tusks, suggest a complex communication system among hunter-gatherers, with patterns matching later Mesopotamian tablets. The findings, published in a top science journal, hint at a whole symbol system in the Paleolithic era.

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