Günter Dreyer

Who is Günter Dreyer?

Günter Dreyer is an Egyptologist at the German Archaeological Institute. In southern Egypt, Dreyer discovered records of linen and oil deliveries which have been carbon-dated to between 3300 BCE and 3200 BCE, predating the Dynastic Period.

He studied Egyptology Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern Archeology, the Hamburg university and the Free-university Berlin.

In 1998 Dreyer found writing on small ivory labels, he concluded that these challenged the prevailing view that the first people to write were the Sumerians of Mesopotamia sometime before 3000 BCE.