Archaeologists Have Discovered The World's Oldest Inscription In Jiroft

CAIS ^ | 11-5-2007

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Archaeologists have Discovered the World's Oldest Inscription in Jiroft

05 November 2007

LONDON, (CAIS) -- Archaeologists have discovered the world's most ancient inscription in the Iranian city of Jiroft, near the Halil Roud historical site.

"The inscription, discovered in a palace, was carved on a baked mud-brick whose lower left corner has only remained,” explained Professor Yousof Majid-Zadeh, head of the Jiroft excavation team.

“The only ancient inscriptions known to experts before the Jiroft discovery were cuneiform and hieroglyph,” said Majid Zadeh, adding that,”the new-found inscription is formed by geometric shapes and no linguist around the world has been able to decipher it yet.”

Archaeologists have found many artefacts confirming the existence of a rich civilization dating back to the third millennium BCE, during the 5 previous seasons.

The sixth season of Jiroft excavations will focus on the temple and the sites where the tablets were found during previous phases.

Archaeologists believe the discovered inscription is the most ancient written script found so far and that the Elamite written language originated in Jiroft, where the writing system developed first and was then spread across the country.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[BibChr]

“Helen Thomas was here”

[rightwingintelligentsia]

“Death to America”

[ArrogantBustard]

“Helen Thomas was here”

Not quite ...

It's:

"Helen Thomas is old and ugly."

[BibChr]

You win. You are meaner than I.

(c;

[blau993]

“FReepers Rule.”

[econjack]

“Helen Thomas was here”

No...your forgot the third thingie from the end. The proper translation is:

“Helen Thomas is still here”

[theDentist]

“Wife... take please”

[Brilliant]

“He who writes on bathroom walls....”

[RedFred In A Blue State]

It’s Bush’s fault!

[elcid1970]

“Re-elect Senator Thurmond!”

;^)

[Red Badger]

“I owe you three jars of olive oil”...............

[ArrogantBustard]

Here I sit, broken-hearted ...

[Gator101]

Isn't that something...somebody found my first press pass!

[Darksheare]

It’s obviously some ancient leftie’s screed, written immediately before the zot baked the tablet portion and destroyed the rest.

[tx_eggman]

Looks like the guy threw a strike in the first two frames ...

[DainBramage]

My have excellent goats and Mohamed has a nice ass....

[Red Badger]

LOL!!!! I was thinking the same thing!!!.............

[gridlock]

Perhaps you can fill in the blanks in the partial translation:

I_ . _S . _LL . BUS_’_ . FAU_T

Linguists are stumped!

[Sacajaweau]

We did this when we where kids. It was called “Rock Art”.

[gridlock]

It says: Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink

[Red Badger]

“For a good time call........”

[Jagman]

If it was MicroJiroft 0.0001, it probably said:

abort/retry/fail?

[Red Badger]

If they ever decipher it, I guarantee you it has something to do with taxes.............

[stylin19a]

B-E S-U-R-E T-O D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

[muawiyah]

The first two items are "loads". That's why they are cross-tied with rope. The second two items are "load bearing animals" ~ maybe reindeer with a sledge/sleigh config.

The animals carry the load.

Roughly translated, this means "I am a river to my people".

This traditional claim is a well known line in Lawrence of Arabia. It's what the king says.

Anyone whose tried his or her hand at Chin characters, or Sioux Indian sign language can bust this sucker.

[OSHA]

It's obviously two K's, a homer and then a throw out to first.

[snippy_about_it]

I can’t believe they haven’t figured it out.

All your base is belong....

[rabscuttle385]

"Helen Thomas is old and ugly."

And that was written back in the Third Millennium B.C.!

[theFIRMbss]

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Aren't those letters created in the same style the Predators use?!

[buck61]

“For a good time call...

Gotta be the answer, after all,the oldest profession known to man???

[OSHA]

The second two items are "load bearing animals" ~ maybe reindeer with a sledge/sleigh config.

Iranian reindeer?

[SlowBoat407]

no linguist around the world has been able to decipher it yet.

Who is John Galt?

[ari-freedom]

hey it's an ancient self destruct mechanism of the Predator!

[Wuli]

Ancient graffiti: “The prophet say: It is the fault of the Bush.”

[ari-freedom]

haha!

[Redleg Duke]

Translation: “George Bush’s Fault!”

[T.Smith]

You win! Classic.

[MHGinTN]

Kind of looks like paleo-hebrew.

[Doc Savage]

“Dead Head”

[Army Air Corps]

“There once was a girl from Bam...”

[ari-freedom]

how can you be a paleo-hebrew? Pat Buchanan’s head would explode trying to figure out that one

[pillut48]

“Hillary can dish it out but she can’t take it!”
;-)

[Roccus]

"We came in peace"

[Redcloak]

It’s hard to tell, given the fact that they probably only used consonants, but it looks like...

_ll y__r b_s_ _r_ b_l_ng t_ _s.

[SamuraiScot]

Amateurs.

It says, "Two large pepperoni, extra cheese on both."

[Jim Noble]

E=mc². Allahu akhbar!

That was easy.

[omniscient]

“MADE IN CHINA”

[MHGinTN]

No, the language written on the brick looks like the characters in the written language, paleo-hebrew. If I knew how to get it to image at FR I could post a few verses in paleo-hebrew for you.