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The University of Paris certainly predates that at Oxford by some 90 years.

I am thus a little taken aback as to why Ancient Origins seems to be so anglophile in choosing Oxford !

The famous Love story of Abelard and Heloise is closely woven around this early centre of learning.

Besides the Paris University has much to explore and review. Dr Ingram F Anderson, Johannesburg.

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Please clarify... When exactly was the Aztec ‘nation’ civilized?

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Then shouldn’t the title be “The University of Qarawiyyin Is Older Than British Civilization”? 🤔

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Institution of learning and the first academia founded and established by Plato at Athen, Greece. But the first formal education with scientific base was at Ionia, Old Greece, now Turkey, the departure from explaining things with human interests (mythology) rather than with things' own characters (objectivity), in around the 5th century BC.

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The Aztec civilization moved into what is now Mexico from what is now the southwest US. It is a culture much older than Oxford.

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The big difference is, the people of Oxford built their place, and knew all the history of it. The Aztecs didn't build their place, and didn't know much about the people who did, who had disappeared.

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