A ceramic fragment dating back to 5,000 BC with what might be “the world’s oldest writing“ has been discovered in a previously unknown Chalcolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper Age) settlement found underneath the Ancient Roman road station Ad Putea near the town of Riben, Dolma Mitropoliya Municipality, Pleven District, in Northern Bulgaria. The archaeological excavations of the…

A small ceramic slab from the 6th millennium BC with written signs which might be the world’s oldest writing has been discovered by archaeologists at a prehistoric settlement near the town of Nova Zagora in Southeast Bulgaria. The slab from Nova Zagora with what are seemingly written signs, which have not been decoded, is not unlike…