21 November 2009 > Articles - Popular
The inscriptions are to be seen on the stringers above the tomb entrances at Orvieto necropolis, Italy. These were created by the Etruscan (better said "Venetic") graphemes - most likely in the 6th Century BC. The archaic town of Orvieto, previously called Urbs Vetus (Old Town), decorated the surface of the rock plateau like an open face sandwich. The cliff below the elevated "table land" had been perforated like a piece of Swiss Cheese by the ancient residents and so there are, in fact, two towns. Both of these we find half way between Florence and Rome at the convergence of the Rivers Chiani and Tevere. There was a ring of burials, reputedly below the cliffs around the city, of these sites two survive - Crocifisso del Tufo and Cannicella. česky deutsch
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20 December 2009 > Articles - Popular
In 1885 two French archeologists Cousine and Dürrbach, members of scientific society École de France, were searching classical relicts on the island Lemnos in the Aegean Sea. Near the village Kaminia, they succeeded to find a stony stele (memorial) with authentic inscriptions probably from 6th century BC.
Many decipherments have been published already. But the solutionists (decepherers) were looking for names or place names simply because they did not understood the text. In consequence, they splited up the text wrongly, organized the lines on grounds of seeming shape of lines instead of meaning. (Fig. 1&2 Stele from Lemnos)
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