Re: Ancient writing found in Turkmenistan

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 12:10:05 EDT


At 13:09 +0100 2001-05-15, Misha Wolf wrote:
><quote>
>A previously unknown civilisation was using writing in Central Asia
>4,000 years ago, hundreds of years before Chinese writing developed,
>archaeologists have discovered.
></quote>
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1330000/1330705.stm
>

Well. It would be useful to see a sample, now wouldn't it?

Still. Wonder if there's a Rosetta stone in that there tell?

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