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Fairy Tales much Older than Thought

Public Domain by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

Applying methods from biology, scientists analysed the speech in fairy tales in different languages and concluded that they are probably much older than thought, possibly dating back to the Bronze age.

News seen at: BBC

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