All over these areas it was the same story. From 4000 BCE (or thereabouts

– Marija Gimbutas dates the first invasions of Old Europe at 4300 BCE) the Indo-

Europeans swept through Old European culture like a forest fire. As Gimbutas

writes, “Millennial traditions were truncated, towns and villages disintegrated,

magnificent painted pottery vanished; as did shrines, frescoes, sculptures, symbols

and script.

1. Does it mean they destroyed the Old European culture just like the fire destroys the forest?

2. Does the "script" here mean "alphabet" or "everything that they wrote" or maybe "Scripture"?

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