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August 23, 2010
August 23, 2010

Jeffrey Quilter, director of the archaeological project at Magdalena de Cao Viejo in Peru, has announced the discovery of a scrap of paper. Early 17th-century writing on it gives corresponding numbers in Spanish, Arabic numerals, and symbols from an unknown language, possibly an extinct one such as Quingnam or Pescadora. Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology […]

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