tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post3280210612410947360..comments2023-08-26T09:41:34.197-06:00Comments on Africa: Rare Analyses and Knowledge-base: Revisiting exchanges with Clyde Winters on the Meroitic script Pt. 3Mystery Solverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-76638950034414630612008-09-16T00:52:00.000-06:002008-09-16T00:52:00.000-06:00anonymous writes:lol.. It makes no sense- that hit...anonymous writes:<BR/><BR/><I>lol.. It makes no sense- that hit the nail on the head. I am glad you post this because I keep running into people who claim with Olympian certainity that "sub-Saharan" Africa never invented writing, and never used writing until around the Arab era. But ain't ancient Meroe "sub-Saharan"? And could it be said that Europeans, or "Middle easterners" themselves "inventedMystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-34781359109478058472008-09-15T20:49:00.000-06:002008-09-15T20:49:00.000-06:00Meroitic to develop from that script from right ne...<B>Meroitic to develop from that script from right next door, but necessary for Kushites to go all the way to central-south Asia to adopt their script? Or is the proposal here that the Kushites sat on their hands, while the Kushana adopted script features from Demotic, only for them to then introduce it to Kushites who initially had the gumption to adopt Egyptic hieroglyphics, but not its Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com