Harald Haarmann (world's leading expert on scripts and languages) states that the Danube script is the oldest known writing in the world. Much older than Mesopotamian writing. The Danube culture was an egalitarian civilization which existed 8000 years ago in Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldavia .....) and is indeed the cradle of civilization, not the Middle East.Danube Script from Old Europe 5000 - 3500 BC | 2:48Karin Haanappel | 729 subscribers | 44,969 views | November 25, 2013