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To: Fred Nerks

Probably CP/M or Fortran.


3 posted on 07/30/2008 7:00:51 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: garyhope

A dialect of Hebrew.


7 posted on 07/30/2008 7:06:54 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: garyhope

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn10076-oldest-writing-in-the-new-world-discovered.html

“The link to the Olmec culture is convincing, says Mary Pohl of Florida State University, US, who was not involved in this study. Pohl had previously excavated an inscribed roller stamp of the Olmec culture, which was firmly dated to 650 BC (see Early Americans used first writing to promise loyalty).

Recently, another roller stamp has been dated to 1150 BC, pushing back the origin of the Olmec symbols. “Things are really beginning to come together; this is really an exciting time,” Pohl told New Scientist.

(further info.)


9 posted on 07/30/2008 7:11:28 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: garyhope
Probably CP/M or Fortran.

It looks more like APL.

38 posted on 07/30/2008 11:43:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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