Paging Daniel Jackson....
Probably CP/M or Fortran.
Like Stonehenge, this may be a joke perpetrated on future generations by ancients with a big sense on humor and a fist full of peyote.
The first civilization to discover erasers. (yawn)
The message reads:
“We are having a helluva kegger, but we need more beer and pizza...”
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Okay... this got me thinking about the recent claim that the Phaistos Disk is a fake... and I could have sworn there was a topic about it... couldn’t find it... any leads?
boy, sometimes *nothing* helps...
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
‘Oldest’ New World writing found
BBC | September 15, 2006 | Helen Briggs
Posted on 09/14/2006 9:39:19 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701838/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/olmec/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/olmecs/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/shang/index
The Olmec and the ShangLast year, in a book entitled Origin of the Olmec Civilization, Professor Mike Xu, a Chinese who teaches in the foreign languages department at the University of Central Oklahoma, proposed a hypothesis which aroused a storm of controversy in archeological circles. In Xu's view, the first complex culture in Mesoamerica may have come into existence with the help of a group of Chinese who fled across the seas as refugees at the end of the Shang dynasty. The Olmec civilization arose around 1200 BC, which coincides with the time when King Wu of Zhou attacked and defeated King Zhou, the last Shang ruler, bringing his dynasty to a close.
by Claire Liu
tr. by Robert Taylor
;)
Ancient doodling by an illiterate stone worker?
“... such large returns of conjecture, from such a small investment in fact”