Tuesday, September 19, 2006

News at Eleven: At first glance, the tablet "looked

like a fake to me because the symbols are laid out in horizontal rows," unlike the region's other writing systems, he said.

[David] Grove is also skeptical because some of the tablet's symbols seem out of place, since they don't show up in iconography until centuries later, he says.

from National Geographic: Oldest Writing in New World Discovered, Scientists Say

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