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7,000-YEAR-OLD CERAMIC FRAGMENT WITH POSSIBLY ‘WORLD’S OLDEST WRITING’ DISCOVERED IN BULGARIA’S RIBEN

  

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7,000-YEAR-OLD CERAMIC FRAGMENT WITH POSSIBLY ‘WORLD’S OLDEST WRITING’ DISCOVERED IN BULGARIA’S RIBEN

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A ceramic fragment dating back to 5,000 BC with what might be  “the world’s oldest writing"  has been  discovered in a  previously unknown Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) settlement  found underneath  the Ancient Roman road station Ad Putea  near the town of  Riben, Dolma Mitropoliya Municipality, Pleven District, in Northern Bulgaria.

The archaeological excavations of the  Ancient Roman   road station  Ad Putea  have been led by  archaeologist  Assoc. Prof. Sergey Torbatov  from the  National Institute and Museum of Archaeology , who is, respectively, an expert in Roman archaeology.

However, during the 2016 digs in the  Roman fortress  near Riben  the  researchers  have reached a settlement from the Chalcolithic,  and have stumbled upon the ceramic item seemingly featuring  pictographic  or  pre-alphabetic writing.

The writing on the artifact which is in fact a fragment from a clay vessel could turn out to be the world’s oldest,  Volodya Popov , Director of the  Pleven Regional Museum of History has stated when announcing the  discovery,  as cited by  BTA .

According to  Popov,  who is a specialist in  prehistoric archaeology,  the potentially prehistoric writing found on the slab from  Bulgaria’s Riben  is 2,000 years older than the writing of  Ancient Sumer  in  Mesopotamia  and  Ancient Egypt.  It could prove that the first ever instance of written transfer of information occurred on the territory of today’s  Bulgaria  and the  Balkan Peninsula.

 

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Larry Hampton
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link   seeder  Larry Hampton    8 years ago

For the time being,  the newly found 7,000-year-old ceramic fragment has been seen by archaeologists only ; it is to be shown to the media and the public only in early 2017, after a conference to be held at the  National Institute and Museum of Archaeolog y in  Sofia.

However, Popov has revealed that the  artifact features  two pictographic signs,  a  swastika , and a group of other written signs.

In his words, 7,000 years ago,  prehistoric ceramic vessels with written signs on them were used for  religious rites  and rituals.  However, the decoding of the actual meaning of the writing is, of course, very difficult.

 
 
 
Tex Stankley
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link   Tex Stankley  replied to  Larry Hampton   8 years ago

Great stuff.  Thanks for the link.  Yeah, archeology is pushing our notion of when civilization began deeper and deeper into the past. 

The whole Gobekli Tepe thing is pretty fascinating as well.

Here, while reading one can listen to what might be the oldest known tune a spinning.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika     8 years ago

Good stuff. Every new discovery keeping changing what we thought to be fact.

I read another good article recently where DNA testing showed the oldest civilizations to be in Australia and New Guinea....Between 52,000 and 70,000 year in the past.

Love this type of thing.

 
 
 
Tex Stankley
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link   Tex Stankley  replied to  Kavika   8 years ago

Me as well.  Thank you for the link!

I'll see if I can find it, though sloth and ennui might just put the air brakes on that one, but I just read a couple of articles tracing Aussie Aboriginal DNA to both south and north Amerka.   Most cool.    

Back in the 70's I attended a few years of a symposium titled, "Pre Columbian Trans Atlantic Cultural Diffusion in the Americas".  This was prior to academia even entertaining the notion that the Norse had toodled over and used the water coolers,  rest rooms and fast food joints.  

Anyhow, we are in the midst of some pretty fascinating and most cool discoveries in the world of archeology. 

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser    8 years ago

How fascinating!

It seems that the swastika had many religious meanings before the Nazis used it!  In many different cultures...  Thanks for this article!

 
 
 
Tex Stankley
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link   Tex Stankley  replied to  Dowser   8 years ago

From the Holy to the Profane.  

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser  replied to  Tex Stankley   8 years ago

Yeah...  

I was thinking that Native Americans used the symbol as well-- I have a couple of silver turquoise bracelets from the 1880s that have swastikas on them...  And now, the ancient peoples of Bulgaria also used the same symbol.  Pretty interesting!  Until the Nazis grabbed it and made it awful, it must have been a powerful symbol for the good! 

 
 
 
Tex Stankley
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link   Tex Stankley  replied to  Dowser   8 years ago

Here's an article  bout the swastika symbol from a  site that sometimes delves into the wacky but is nonetheless full o goodness.

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser  replied to  Tex Stankley   8 years ago

Great link!  thumbs up

 
 
 
Tex Stankley
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link   Tex Stankley  replied to  Dowser   8 years ago

I do hope you are having a most pleasant and reasonable day, Young Missy.  Best to you and yours!

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser  replied to  Tex Stankley   8 years ago

Why thank you, Tex!  I'm having a good day here at home alone, because I'm avoiding the nasty of the FB!  Much love to you and yours!!!

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika   replied to  Tex Stankley   8 years ago

Many SW tribes used the swastika, and it was called the ''whirling log''.....It was the symbol of the 45th Infantry prior to the start of WWII...(many NA's were in the 45th). Once Hitler starting using it the SW tribes stopped and the 45th Infantry changed their patch to the Thunderbird, another NA symbol...It is the Symbol of the Ojibwe nations.

You can find buildings in NM built before WWII that have the swastika in their décor.

 

 
 

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