> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Michael Everson wrote: > >> Pity there aren't any pictures! > > There is one (not very clear) at > http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/6988.htm > > I found that with > http://news.google.com/nwshp?q=%22Tel+Zayit%22&filter=0 > > This seems to be a rather successful meme, which has already started > mutating in interesting ways; one of the articles that Google News > found says that the alphabet is 12,000 years old. :-)">

A Is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem (original) (raw)

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From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>> Pity there aren't any pictures!
>
> There is one (not very clear) at
> http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/6988.htm
>
> I found that with
> http://news.google.com/nwshp?q=%22Tel+Zayit%22&filter=0
>
> This seems to be a rather successful meme, which has already started
> mutating in interesting ways; one of the articles that Google News
> found says that the alphabet is 12,000 years old. :-)

The most complete site about the discovery is probably this one:
http://www.zeitah.net/
If there are other findings, this official site for the Tel Zayit stone
discovery and Zeitah excavations will give updates, or may be the ASOR
website in US, which finances a part of the study.
See also:
http://www.pts.edu/Ron%20Tappy-%20Stone.pdf

Well for now, the discovery is limited to short two lines of text on a wall,
but there may exist tablets or ceramics hidden in the ground of the
excavation.

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