Günter Dreyer

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name = Günter Dreyer
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birth_date = 1943
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residence = Germany
Egypt
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field = Egyptologist
work_institutions = German Archaeological Institute
Free University Berlin
Berlin University
alma_mater = Free University Berlin
Hamburg University
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known_for = discovery of hieroglypics dating to 33rd century BCE
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Günter Dreyer is an Egyptologist at the German Archaeological Institute. In southern Egypt, Dreyer discovered records of linen and oil deliveries which have been carbon-dated to between 3300 BCE and 3200 BCE, predating the Dynastic Period. This find challenges the prevailing view that the first people to write were the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) sometime before 3000 BCE. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/235724.stm]

External links

* [http://www.dainst.org/mitarbeiter_370_en.html Staff Profile at the German Archaeological Institute]