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Ancient American writing

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:21 am
by _Gazelam
Stumbled across this, thought you might find it interesting:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060914-oldest-writing.html

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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:04 am
by _Brackite
Cool!

Re: Ancient American writing

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:49 pm
by _SatanWasSetUp
Gazelam wrote:Stumbled across this, thought you might find it interesting:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060914-oldest-writing.html

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I'm not a professional translator, nor do I have a Urim and Thummim or seer stone, but I'm pretty sure #12 is an ice cream cone.

Re: Ancient American writing

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:20 pm
by _Who Knows
SatanWasSetUp wrote:I'm not a professional translator, nor do I have a Urim and Thummim or seer stone, but I'm pretty sure #12 is an ice cream cone.


Some might say that's an anachronsim. But I'm sure FARMS could find a way out of it...

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:53 pm
by _moksha
Looks to me to be some sort of ancient dental chart and no, #12 is not an ice cream cone but rather a fissure below the gum line.