Sentences with 'predates'
Example sentences and phrases with the word predates and other words derived from it.
• « Written documents were also found. Of particular importance are the dialogues of Confucius on a 5.20-metre-long scroll. It is the oldest manuscript of the great Chinese thinker, dating back to 710 BC, and predates by two centuries the previously known one. »
• « A Sumerian text from almost four thousand years ago - which predates the biblical text by a thousand years - contains a narrative strikingly analogous to the one describing the confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel. Once again the Sumerians reveal themselves to be the authors of literary traditions, beliefs and motifs that have spread throughout the world. »
• « The language of Ebla - present mainly in the lexical texts - is a northwestern Semitic type very close to Hebrew and Phoenician, which it predates by at least a thousand years. »