Re: NYTimes.com: A Is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 17:08:02 CST

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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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