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 was wooden bearing inscribed symbols dated between 7260 BC and 5250 BC.  It was discovered in the Dispilio Lake settlement by professor of prehistoric archaeology George Hourmousiadis. 

The tablet may possibly be an early form of the written word, as similar symbols have been found in the Vinea culture in southeastern Balkan settlements. The clear symbols on the wooden tablet, which some believe that they resemble the signs of the ancient Greek alphabet, are an early form of communication.

Furthermore, the engraved writing potentially pre-existed Linear B writing used by the Myceneans as they describe the activities of Neolithic man and his culture.

Professor Hourmousiadis suggested that such writings, yet to be deciphered, could turn out to be any of the varieties of communication forms including symbols representing counting goods.  Unfortunately, we don't have a Rosetta stone to decipher the pre-existing Linear B writing yet.