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The famous 19th-century fairy tale collector Wilhelm Grimm suggested fairy tales dated aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout thousands aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout years. Scientists now support his theory and claim that many aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout the fairy tales we know and love could be aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout 4,000 years old. Anthropologist Jamshid Tehrani and folklorist Sara da Silva say the oldest known fairy tale dates aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout over 6,000 years aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout the Bronze Age. This is a time aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout the Stone Age and Iron Age when humans first started making tools aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout metal. Dr Tehrani studied the evolution aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout our early languages. He found strong links aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout a tale called "The Smith and the Devil" and the Proto-Indo-European language - an ancient common language that dates to aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout 6,000 years ago.

The two scientists analysed 275 tales aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout elements aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout culture that existed aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout modern languages like English, French and Italian. They say well-known tales like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Rumplestiltskin" are aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout least 4,000 years old. Dr Tehrani said: "It's remarkable that these stories have survived so long aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout being written down. They are older than the English language and would have been first told aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout a language that is now extinct." Many aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout the fairy tales we know today were first written aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout in the 17th century. Dr Tehrani says the new findings suggest that: "A substantial number aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout magical tales have existed aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout Indo-European oral traditions long aroundatbackbeforebetweendownforfrominofovertowithout they were written down."