Enigmatic Dispilio Tablet, Neolithic Flutes And The Traditional History Of Writing

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – This wooden tablet known as the Dispilio Tablet (or the Dispilio Disk), contradicts history as we know it.

If it is proved one day, the beginning of writing goes back at least two thousand years.

The curious wooden tablet was unearthed during the 1992 excavations conducted by the professor of prehistoric archaeology George Chourmouziadis and his team at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The place of this fascinating discovery was the Neolithic settlement near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in Northern Greece.

The excavations yielded findings like bones, four different types of ceramic material were unearthed. These vessels were associated with food preparation (cooking utensils) and the offering and consumption of food.

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