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Don't you love when some random tidbit makes you go "That doesn't sound right, but I have to go to Wikipedia to disprove it!" so you end up in a wiki spiral about cattle in Viking culture or the separation of West Virginia or the 18th century postal service?
Thanks to one of those moments claiming that Methos was "about as old as civilization", I can now declare with confidence that several Nile valley civilizations considered the precursors of dynastic Egypt existed in the 4th and 5th millennia bce, and while evidence from Mesopotamia is fragmentary, it's known that there were many city states there prior to the first known rulers around 2600 bce. Danubian or Linear Pottery culture dates to around 5500 bce and the oldest known civilization from China, the Jiahu culture, about 7000 bce. There's a Stone Age city in Turkey dating from around 7500 bce, and the Australian Aboriginal culture goes back to at least 50,000 bce.
Methos is about as old as Gilgamesh, though, slightly older, and around the age of cuneiform, which is still the earliest known form of writing.
Thanks to one of those moments claiming that Methos was "about as old as civilization", I can now declare with confidence that several Nile valley civilizations considered the precursors of dynastic Egypt existed in the 4th and 5th millennia bce, and while evidence from Mesopotamia is fragmentary, it's known that there were many city states there prior to the first known rulers around 2600 bce. Danubian or Linear Pottery culture dates to around 5500 bce and the oldest known civilization from China, the Jiahu culture, about 7000 bce. There's a Stone Age city in Turkey dating from around 7500 bce, and the Australian Aboriginal culture goes back to at least 50,000 bce.
Methos is about as old as Gilgamesh, though, slightly older, and around the age of cuneiform, which is still the earliest known form of writing.
