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Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing


Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system

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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing