Recently, archeologists was uncovered evidence of an ancient civilization 1000 years older and containing 5000 more people than ancient Mesopotamia in Romania. By recently, I mean recently for western archeologists. This was discovered in Romania is the 1960's by Russians. All subsequent publishings of the information were taken as soviet propaganda by everywhere except Russia, and, after the cold war, was unknown due to a lack of Russia-focused archeologists, who were focusing mostly in Africa, China, and whatever parts of the Middle East that they could excavate withought being bombed.