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

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 with some discussion by Peter S Bellwood in his book First Farmers. 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)