by Ionela Hamz
The history and the archeologists shown us that the oldest writing in the world belonged to Sumerians with their cuneiform writing system. It is more than 5.000 years old and so far it is generally considered and taught to be the first writing system.
However, recent discoveries made by the archeologists in Romania, tend to prove us wrong. The archeologist Nicolae Vlassa discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in the Romanian village Tărtăria three inscribed but unbaked clay tablets. They are all small, two being rectangular and the third one round. They are all inscribed only on one face, but the meaning of the symbols is still unknown.
The most intriguing fact about the tablets is that they are considered by many scientist the world oldest writing system encountered, older than Sumerian one. The radiocarbon dating on the Tărtăria Tablets showed that they are over 7000 years old (5500 BC).
Even though the symbols inscribed are still a subject of debate there is no doubt that Danube civilization invented a writing system long before Sumerians and maybe, just maybe, they developed the first writing system ever known.
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