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A 19th-century fairy tale said fairy tales were of years old. Scientists now say this is and that many tales could be over 4,000 years . The known fairy tale, "The Smith and the Devil," dates back 6,000 to the Bronze Age - a when humans first started making tools. One scientist, Dr Jamshid Tehrani, found that this tale came from an language that dates to around 6,000 years ago.

Dr Tehrani looked at 275 fairy tales. He said: "It's that these have survived so long without being written down." He added that: "They are than the English and would have been told in a language that is now ." He said well-known tales, like "Beauty and the Beast," were at 4,000 years old. He said his suggests that many fairy tales were told in languages, before they were written down.

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