[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This is an excerpt, but a long one.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

old stuff ping.

[Wormwood]

Fascinating article. Thank you.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Were their Western contemporaries Vikings and other northern barbarian tribes? Rome definitely had an alphabet.

[Kirkwood]

"The inscription is indecipherable but scientists hope that further excavations at the site could give clues to its content."

I think it says: "Drink more Ovaltine."

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Some links within the original article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_enl_1158252265/html/1.stm .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_enl_1158252540/html/1.stm .

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Some links within the original article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_enl_1158252265/html/1.stm .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_enl_1158252540/html/1.stm .

[msnimje]

It says, "Wait for the Europeans to tame the northland then INVADE."

[balrog666]

The finding suggests that New World people developed writing some 400 years before their contemporaries in the Western hemisphere.

Huh? Plenty of ancient civilizations had writing.

Who are they counting/not-counting here? And for what purpose?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, will add, but alas...

Oldest writing in the New World discovered
NewScientist.com | 14 September 2006 | Jeff Hecht
Posted on 09/14/2006 4:09:26 PM EDT by flevit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701572/posts

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[Tzimisce]

Hm...

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