A book-sized tablet of volcanic basalt rock was found near Bashplemi Lake, Georgia, in 2021, covered in etchings which have yet to be deciphered.
The findings were published in a journal recently An undeciphered language has been discovered etched into a stone tablet which could be over 3,500 years old. A paper published in the Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology found that the mysterious writing is similar to other ancient languages from the Mediterranean region at that time, but experts are still baffled. Researchers believe the stone tablet itself could date back to the Late Bronze Age, roughly 3,500 years ago.
Researchers theorised that because the inscription was done on basalt – a notoriously hard rock – it could represent something important. ‘Given that the inscription is made on hard-to-work material, and that some frequently repeated symbols may be numbers, it may represent military spoils, an important construction project, or an offering to a deity,’ researchers said.
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