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Stone tablet found with carved symbols that do not match any known language (www.earth.com)
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A carved stone tablet found in southern Georgia bears dozens of symbols that have no clear parallel in known languages or writing systems.

The discovery suggests that part of the region’s written past remains undocumented, with implications for how early societies recorded meaning and authority.

The stone tablet was recovered from Bashplemi Lake in Dmanisi Municipality and contains 60 carved symbols that researchers are now examining to determine its age, origin, and possible function.

Late in the autumn of 2021, fishermen noticed the carved slab when the lake level dropped and mud exposed it.

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[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

well, the areas mentioned are the ones that nowadays use scripts descended from the egyptian hieroglyphics so they're basically saying that it's likely to be a script that also belongs to that family