"Of the 3rd millennium BC , Marc van de Mieroop confessed ‘the chronology is confused owing to the Sumerian king list’s practice of listing contemporaneous dynasties as successive.’"
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Marc van de Mieroop , quoted in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)
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