Friday, September 15, 2006

Ancient Writings of the Olmec Civilization

I just read in the newspaper today that archaeologists have found a stone slab that contains evidence of written language in ancient Mexico dating back to around 900 B.C. This is a pre-Azetc advanced civilization that built pyramids and now appears to have a written language. The more we find about the ancients the more it appears that they were much more advanced than we have been led to believe.

Here's the article I found on CNN, "Mysterious stone slab bears ancient writing". The Olmec civilization of Meso-America are the predecessors of the Aztecs.

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