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Word: midpoint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...language of old time diplomats; Sumerian, the language of scientists; Phoenician, the language of the maritime merchants; and an unknown tongue. Other tablets had Egyptian and Hittite inscriptions. Where the schoolbooks were found, according to the inscriptions which scientists could read, existed a University City called Zapuna, a midpoint joining Mycenaean, Egyptian & Babylonian cultures. There ancient scholars exchanged languages, ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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