Some 100 ceramic tablets bearing inscriptions with alphabetical signs are among the artifacts found at Glozel, near Vichy in France. The tablets were said to date back to the Neolithic period, 6000 years ago with some of the signs resembling our modern day alphabet. The inscriptions are, on average, on six or seven lines, mostly on a single side. The symbols on the tablets are reminiscent of the Phoenician alphabet, but they have not been conclusively deciphered. There were numerous claims of decipherment, including the identification of the language of the inscriptions as Basque, Chaldean, Eteocretan, Hebrew, Iberian, Latin, Berber, Ligurian, Phoenician and Turkic.
Glozel Tablets
