Mexico does it again!

Or, do American Universities still want us to believe that all literate civilization grew up in Mesopotamia?

¡Ora, MEChA! ¡Ora, UTEP!

"Earliest New World Writing Discovered"

Source: NPR -- National Public Radio
Date: September 14, 2006
Dept: Health & Science
By: Christopher Joyce

"Morning Edition, September 15, 2006 -- A heap of debris taken from a quarry in Veracruz, Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what appears to be the oldest writing ever found in the Americas. Numerous symbols are carved across the block in rows. Experts say the block dates back almost 3,000 years, and was created by people from the Olmec civilization. The Olmec were an early central American people who rose to prominience before the heyday of the Maya.

"It is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, says Stephen Houston, an archeologist at Brown University."

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