Tartaria Tablets – The first writing in the world
5300 BC
In the city Tărtăria, Alba County,Romania, in 1961 was discovered an important religious complex; the material showed a continuity of habitation for several thousand years.
Members of a team led by Nicolae Vlassa, an archaeologist at the National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca in charge of the site excavations, unearthed three inscribed but unbaked clay tablets, together with 26 clay and stone figurines and a shell bracelet, accompanied by the burnt, broken, and disarticulated bones of an adult.
The three sensational clay tablets were made at least 6,500 years ago, according to the isotope carbon 14 dating. Read more
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