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March 1, 2009

Experts aim to decipher ancient script

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29445240/

"When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated.

The enigmatic pattern of inscribed symbols curled symmetrically around the upper part of the rough-edged, yellowish stone tablet and coiled into the middle in a decorative style typical of an extinct Iberian language called Southwest Script.

For more than two centuries, scientists have tried to decipher Southwest Script, believed to be the peninsula's oldest written tongue..."

Posted by Rob Kiser on March 1, 2009 at 8:43 AM

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