[Fred Nerks]

Article from 2006.

[Uriah_lost]

Paging Daniel Jackson....

[garyhope]

Probably CP/M or Fortran.

[Fred Nerks]

GGG ping.

[devane617]

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.

[LiberConservative]

"...the team believes the block has been carved repeatedly and erased ...

The first civilization to discover erasers. (yawn)

[Army Air Corps]

The message reads:

“We are having a helluva kegger, but we need more beer and pizza...”

[PUGACHEV]

The Olmecs are a mysterious culture, to say the least. We know so little about them. Where they came from is a mystery; where they went is a mystery. We don't even know their name, Olmec is just a name we assigned to them.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Cascajal block

Google

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[SunkenCiv]

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?

[SunkenCiv]

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

[SunkenCiv]

The Olmec and the Shang
by Claire Liu
tr. by Robert Taylor

Last 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.

[ZinGirl]

Probably an ancient prescription for Ritalin....couldn't read doctor's handwriting then...can't read it now.

;)

[coconutt2000]

Ancient doodling by an illiterate stone worker?

[Publius6961]

“... such large returns of conjecture, from such a small investment in fact”