Image by bbc.com By Tristen Olson
Staff Writer On the 31st of March 2016, in Italy, a group of Archeologists discovered a slab with a written language from the 6th century B.C. The slab is now 2,500 years old. The stone artifact had a language that looked like it was from the Etruscan culture that lasted from the 3rd century to the 6th century. The slab weighed in at 500 pounds and it is more than four feet tall and three feet wide. Archaeologists say that it could be a sacred discovery. The slab has about 70 legible letters on it. “This is probably going to be a sacred text, and will be remarkable for telling us about the early belief system of a lost culture that is fundamental to western traditions,” said archaeologist Gregory Warden. “We hope to make inroads into the Etruscan language,” said Warden. Warden is one of the people that was part of the discovery. He wants the language to come back and for people to recognize it. The archaeologists worked to find the tablets, so anyone can travel to find discoveries on their own. People have said the most active place for archaeology is Oregon State University in Corvallis where a Wooly Mammoth was recently discovered. Comments are closed.
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