New Discovery of World's Oldest Writing Rewrites Human History

New Discovery of World's Oldest Writing Rewrites Human History

In 2026, a peer-reviewed study catalogued three thousand engraved marks lines, crosses, dots, and stars on two hundred sixty prehistoric objects from four caves in Germany, dated between forty-three thousand and thirty-four thousand years ago.

This discovery used methods normally reserved for linguistic data, and researchers found that Aurignacian sign sequences showed complexity and stability rivaling proto-cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, predating known writing by thirty-five thousand years.
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