Dispilio Tablet

Ancient Greece

Dispilio Tablet, The Earliest Written Text Discovered in Greece

Philip Chrysopoulos -
Even though archaeology claims that writing was invented in Sumer between 3,000 and 4,000 BC, a tablet that contradicted this perception was found in 1993 in Dispilio in the northern Greek province of Kastoria. The Dispilio Tablet is a wooden...
Archaeology

Dispilio: The Lakeshore Prehistoric Settlement of Greece

Philip Chrysopoulos -
The Dispilio Lakeshore Prehistoric Settlement is one of the most fascinating archaeological sites in northwestern Greece
Greece

7270-year-old Tablet Found in Kastoria Calls into Question History of Writing

Stella Tsolakidou -
Back in 1993, in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in the Kastoria Prefecture, professor George Hourmouziadis and his team unearthed the Dispilio Tablet (also known as...