✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
Writing in Sumer: c. 3200 BC; Last mammoths: until c. 2000 BC — that is about 1,200 years later.
When writing appeared in Sumer, woolly mammoths still lived on Wrangel Island.
Who and what
- Invention of writing in Sumerc. 3200 BC · Uruk. Clay accounting tablets launch the age of writing
- Last woolly mammothsc. 2000 BC · Wrangel Island. Mammoths still roam while the pyramids are centuries old
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