August
23
/ 2015
Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Grakliani Hill in Georgia have found inscriptions that may date back 2,700 years—well before the alphabet was known to have been in use in the Caucasus. Researchers say the writing is on the pedestal of an altar to a fertility goddess. What the inscription says is unknown because there is no known similar system of writing, says an article in Georgia Today. But the discovery places prehistoric Georgia among some of the first civilizations to use written language, said Vakhtang Lichelo, head of the Institute of Archaeology of Georgia’s State University. “The writings on the two altars of the temple are really well preserved. On the one altar several letters are carved in
