Talk:Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War/Archive 2

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D.W. Anthony, D. Telegin, and D. Brown

Answering my own question in my edit summary in the article, these authors have written various articles on the origins of horse-back writing, some published in Antiquity Magazine. See [1] with some discussion by Peter S Bellwood in his book First Farmers [2]. Clearly not 'confined to a limited number of scholars' though, as Bellwood says 'scholars too numerous to mention'. Doug Weller (talk) 10:10, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

that was a glorious typo, Doug :oP I now see in my mind Achaemenid scribes recording the annals of their glorious leader while galloping across the steppe alongside his armies. --dab (𒁳) 10:19, 20 September 2008 (UTC)