Iran: 3,200 BCE? That cannot possibly be correct. Surely the reference must be to Sumer and, if so, the modern country sitting on that territory (and far more) is Iraq.
Yet, Sumer has long ago come and gone without any known survivors. Even the language has completely disappeared as a day-to-day form of communication. In Egypt, at least, the Copts are believed to be descended from the pre-Arab conquest Egyptians. Even they do not speak a language approximating ancient Egyptian.
But if that’s the underlying methodology, one should expect to find the United States clocking in at around 12,000 BCE. Fair is fair as there is no disqualification just because the Clovis people are as extinct as a national group as the Sumerians (assuming either ever understood themselves in such modern terms).
You make valid points and, if we look at it this way, the only way Egypt could be included would be if the Copts were the dominant ethnic group. I don’t know about Iran or Iraq. I thought Iran is where ancient Persia was. The USA would not qualify at all.
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Iran: 3,200 BCE? That cannot possibly be correct. Surely the reference must be to Sumer and, if so, the modern country sitting on that territory (and far more) is Iraq.
Yet, Sumer has long ago come and gone without any known survivors. Even the language has completely disappeared as a day-to-day form of communication. In Egypt, at least, the Copts are believed to be descended from the pre-Arab conquest Egyptians. Even they do not speak a language approximating ancient Egyptian.
But if that’s the underlying methodology, one should expect to find the United States clocking in at around 12,000 BCE. Fair is fair as there is no disqualification just because the Clovis people are as extinct as a national group as the Sumerians (assuming either ever understood themselves in such modern terms).
You make valid points and, if we look at it this way, the only way Egypt could be included would be if the Copts were the dominant ethnic group. I don’t know about Iran or Iraq. I thought Iran is where ancient Persia was. The USA would not qualify at all.
To show you how much I appreciate this comment, I have added reference to it in my article and suggested readers might want to read it.