Dispilio

Dispilio Tablet, The Earliest Written Text Discovered in Greece

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...

Neolithic Site in Greece Dated Accurately for First Time

A 7,000-year-old Neolithic settlement in modern-day Greece has, for the first time, been accurately dated down to the precise years it was built, and findings may provide a reference point in time in dating other archaeological sites in southeastern...