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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Oldest Animation Discovered In Iran

Long considered a modern invention, animation has apparently been lying about its age. A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s Burnt City in the 1970s features a series of five images that researchers have only recently identified as being sequential, much like those in a zoetrope.

With video! Via Fark Geek.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:07 PM

    Assuming this really is an animation, how did they watch it? Spinning around on a potter's wheel?

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  2. Or some sort of Lazy Susan.

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