"to" = "as"

Tue Jul 26 11:56:56 UTC 2005

Can such things be ?

BBC News, May 4, 1999  [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm] :

"They were carbon-dated to 3300-3200 BC. This is about the same time, or slightly earlier, to the primitive writing developed by the Sumerians of the Mesopotamian civilisation around 3100 BC."

JL

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