Magic Statistics

A 3000-year-old inscribed stone has been discovered in Mexico.

A block of stone inscribed with patterned images suggestive of rhyming couplets is hailed today as the oldest known example of writing in the New World.

The stone was found in a pile of debris used for road building in Veracruz, Mexico, near the former capital of the Olmec civilisation.

It bears inscriptions that date back some three millennia, close to the age of the earliest Egyptian and to cune-iform developed in ancient Mesopotamia.

Mormons will want to know if it's in reformed Egyptian or some other ancient Near Eastern language spoken by the Jaredites.

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