{"id":1126,"date":"2008-01-24T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-a_lawler\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:53:59","slug":"tablets-of-unknown-ancient-script-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/content\/tablets-of-unknown-ancient-script-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablets Of Unknown Ancient Script Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Top 100 Stories of 2008 #78:<\/h4>\n<p>In 2007, excavators of a remote site in southeastern Iran reported finding evidence of a writing system that dates back more than 4,000 years. Featuring odd geometric symbols, three baked mud tablets unearthed near the Iranian city of Jiroft could reveal much about a sophisticated and independent urban culture that flourished between the Mesopotamian and Indus Valley civilizations. However, many scholars are skeptical about the authenticity of the finds, which they \u00adsuspect may have been planted by locals.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists first began digging at large mounds near Jiroft in 2001 after flash floods uncovered ancient graves nearby. The team has since found evidence of a large city dating to 2500 B.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2008\/jan\/tablets-of-unknown-ancient-script-surface\/?searchterm=andrew%20lawler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Courtesy of Discover website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Top 100 Stories of 2008 #78: In 2007, excavators  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discover-magazine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tablets Of Unknown Ancient Script Surface &#8226; Andrew Lawler<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; Top 100 Stories of 2008 #78: In 2007, excavators of a remote site in southeastern Iran reported finding evidence of a writing system that dates\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/content\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1126&action=edit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tablets Of Unknown Ancient Script Surface &#8226; 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