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.
直到1998年， 耶鲁教授John Coleman Darnell 在埃及西部底比斯沙漠 石灰岩悬崖上发现了这些碑文 它们被确认为是公元前18到19世纪 在美索不达米亚文明之前的古迹