The World’s Oldest Living Proverb Discovered Thriving in Ethiopia
The world’s oldest living proverb, from around 3,800 years ago, is found on a tablet from the Assyrian empire. The proverb has been documented from later eras, northwest from the Middle East up into Europe, as far northwest as Britain. Evidence is given here now demonstrating that the proverb is al...
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Universität Hamburg Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies Asien-Afrika-Institut Alsterterrasse 1 D-20354 Hamburg Germany
2019-04-01
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Series: | Aethiopica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/1147 |