8,000-Year-Old Ceramic Slab with Possibly World’s Oldest Writing Discovered
A small ceramic slab from the 6th millennium BC with written signs which might be the world’s oldest writing has been discovered by archaeologists at a prehistoric settlement near the town of Nova Zagora in Southeast Bulgaria.
The slab from Nova Zagora with what are seemingly written signs, which have not been decoded, is not unlike a number of other similar finds from various parts of Bulgaria, except that it appears to be oldest than all, the researchers note.
The most recent similar discovery was a 7,000-year-old ceramic fragment with pre-alphabetic writing found in 2016 in a newly discovered prehistoric settlement from the Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) underneath the Ancient Roman road station Ad Putea at the town of Riben in Northern Bulgaria. Read more.
