Europe's oldest readable writing 'found in Greece'
A clay tablet over 3,000 years old that is considered Europe's oldest readable text has been found in an ancient refuse pit in southern Greece, a US-based researcher has claimed.
A clay tablet over 3,000 years old that is considered Europe's oldest readable text has been found in southern Greece.
The tablet, an apparent financial record from a long-lost Mycenaean town, is about a century older than previous discoveries, said Michael Cosmopoulos, an archaeology professor at the University of Missouri-St Louis.
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