A recent news article from the Netherlands states that the oldest piece of writing ever from that part of the world (29 CE) is a loan document.
I accept that my people were filing commercial documents nearly twenty centuries ago - it fits with everything I know about the Dutch.
SOURCE:
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/04/oldest_writing_is_a_roman_lega.php
Quote:
"The oldest piece of written text ever found in the Netherlands has turned out to be about a loan --- made by a slave called Carus
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The text --- was originally thought to be about a cow.
But now experts at Oxford University have dated the text to February 23, 29 AD and say it concerns a loan made by Carus to an unnamed third party and witnessed by a number of others, including a high-ranking Roman army officer.
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Cows, loans, and dating?
Red tape and dairy run deep in that lot.
Beware of Dutchmen bearing beef.
I wonder if the 'unnamed third party' paid the loan back in full.
If not, there should be consequences.
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