SCHOOLS OF THE ANCIENT
It is a great error to think |hal schools for foreign languages are a modern innovation. In almost prehistoric times, some 4000 years ago, such a school existed on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, the cross-roads between Asia, Europe and Africa. As many as six languages considered, modern by the students of tho fifteenth century B.C. were taught in the university of a town called Zapuna, which was unearthed this year by two French archaeologists. Clay tablets, which served as school books to the philologists of ancient times, and one of the world’s first dictionaries, were among the outstanding finds made.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 9
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