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The 19th-century fairy tale Wilhelm Grimm said fairy tales dated back of years. Scientists now support this. They say many fairy tales could be over 4,000 years old. Anthropologist Jamshid Tehrani said the known fairy tale dates back 6,000 years to the Bronze Age. This is a when first started making tools. Dr Tehrani studied the of early languages. He found strong between a tale called "The Smith and the Devil" and an language that dates to around 6,000 years ago.

Dr Tehrani analysed 275 tales for of culture that existed before people spoke English. He said well-known tales, like "Beauty and the Beast," are at 4,000 years old. Dr Tehrani said: "It's that these stories have survived so without being written down. They are than the English language and would have been told in a that is now ." He added that the new suggest that: "A substantial number of magical tales have existed in Indo-European oral traditions before they were written down."

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