More Mysterious Writing

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/15/earliest.writing.ap/index.html

Proof that The Olmecs, an ancient civilisation much like the Myans, had writing has been found. A green slab of rock was found and carved on it were many symbols of insects, fish and ears of corn, some even repeated a couple times. They are arranged in lines, and the block of stone's dimensions are pretty much identical to those of a standard legal pad. They believe it might have been descirbing a ritual; because of the way to surface is worn down it definitly wasn't a public document but rather something to be read over and over and to be carried around. It is believe that this stone is around 2900 years old (this was determined by the other artifacts found around it).
In the article it says:
"To me, this find really does bring us back to this idea that at least writing and a lot of the things we associate with Mesoamerican culture really did have their origin in this region," Stuart said.

I think that it is pretty cool that even now we are still discovering more and more artifacts from thousands of years ago. Not only that, but our knowledge is so limited to what we know about these people and their civilisation. There are probably SO many more of these types of slabs with ancient writing on them, not only where these were found (in Veracruz in Mexico, in 1999 - it has taken a while for the discovery to be known to the public), but all over the world. It is fascinating that there is so much knowledge and wisdom that these people knew and that we will only discover and understand so much of it. Who knows, they might have known stuff that we don't even know now, or there are things that happened then that have affected us but we don't know about it. There is a lot out there and we will just keep discovering it, and then in another thousand years people will be discovering stuff out us. It's pretty weird and interesting to think about.