There was a photo in Sunday's New York Times. The long article (more
informative than the one cited here), but not the photo, is on its Web site.
It was a seal with 4 signs.
It was a rather annoying article: it was a "new civilization (the BMAC", of
which " archaeologists only had become aware after the fall of the Soviet
Union". Of course, it were the British and American archaeologists only who
were ignoring this area; Russian, French, Italian and German books and
articles had been appearing for decades, and had made their way into many a
non-English general public-oriented book...
Martin Heijdra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Misha Wolf'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:00 AM
Subject: RE: Ancient writing found in Turkmenistan
> Misha Wolf wrote:
> > A previously unknown civilisation was using writing in Central Asia
>
> The article says that the seal was presented in Harvard and Pennsylvania
> universities.
>
> I think there is someone from at least one of those institutions on this
> mailing list. Anyone attend those seminars? Or have any material to share?
>
> _ Marco
>
>
