That is, until 1998, when one Yale professor John Coleman Darnell discovered these inscriptions in the Thebes desert on the limestone cliffs in western Egypt, and these have been dated at between 1800 and 1900 B.C., centuries before Mesopotamia.
Sve do 1998. kad je John Coleman Darnell,  profesor s Yalea, otkrio ove zapise na  vapnenačkim liticama, u Libijskoj pustinji  u zapadnom Egiptu. Oni datiraju između 1800. i 1900.  godine prije Krista, stoljećima prije Mezopotamije.