Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s28.1

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Further demonstration of the truth of the Three Age theory was provided by startling discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Crete. Of course, the earlier work in all these countries, particularly Egypt and Mesopotamia, was far from scientific and nothing less than loot and pillage. Nevertheless, the antiquities, large and small, magnificent sculptures, tools and weapons of copper and bronze and jewellery and the buildings from which they were somehow unearthed, struck the European world with awe. Realization that the East had seen better days than Europe in the past began to dawn upon the scholars and the common man. Its antiquity was proved when CHAMPOLLION and others deciphered the hieroglyphic script of Egypt and RAWLINSON read the cuneiform and Old Persian.