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Ancient Tablet Found: Oldest Readable Writing in Europe
Found at a site tied to myth, Greek tablet survived only by accident, experts say.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110330-oldest-writing-europe-tablet-greece-science-mycenae-greek/
An example of Celtic text - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepontic_language#Texts
http://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/download/Stifter/oldcelt2008_2_lepontic.pdf
Found at a site tied to myth, Greek tablet survived only by accident, experts say.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110330-oldest-writing-europe-tablet-greece-science-mycenae-greek/
Found in an olive grove in what's now the village of Iklaina (map), the tablet was created by a Greek-speaking Mycenaean scribe between 1450 and 1350 B.C., archaeologists say.
An example of Celtic text - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepontic_language#Texts
http://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/download/Stifter/oldcelt2008_2_lepontic.pdf
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