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  1. 🗿✨ Behold, the #revelation of an ancient #script that allegedly unveils the dawn of writing -- because apparently, everything you learned was wrong. 🧙‍♂️📜 New Scientist has cracked the code, or maybe just cracked, and now we're all supposed to be enlightened. ⚡️📚
    newscientist.com/article/25240 #ancientwriting #NewScientist #historyofwriting #enlightenment #HackerNews #ngated

  2. The Hand of Irulegi (cool name!) has writing on it, and is from the time of the Vascones, the forerunners of the Basques. The one word that’s been deciphered so far is nearly the same as the modern Basque word for “fortunate”, so it’s probably a good luck amulet. It was not known before that the Vascones were literate before contact with the Romans; this shows that they were.

    #archaeology #Basques #Vascones #AncientWriting #TheHandOfIrulegi — smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/