Have you ever heard of the Loo stove? They found her in the Caucasus. After the study, archaeologists have established that they created it during the Bronze Age.
According to Russian scientists, the slab contains information about the soul and the afterlife. Symbols are also interesting, which can relate to a very ancient writing.
If research confirms the fact that the inscriptions and drawings on the slab refer to the proto-writing of the most ancient civilization, then the scientific world will have to admit that writing in the Caucasus arose much earlier than the official version.
Before the discovery of the plate, the Maikop plate, which is about 3200 years old, was considered the oldest written monument in the Caucasus. However, the Loo plate is about eight centuries older. Archaeologists believe that it could have been made somewhere at the turn of the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC.
They found her in late spring 2014 near the village of Loo in Sochi. The stone weighs not so much - less than 0.5 tons. Archaeologists have established that a slab of fine-grained sandstone was made. Her dimensions are quite modest:
1) Length - 50 centimeters.
2) Width - 60 centimeters.
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3) Thickness - about 23 centimeters.
The slab was discovered quite by accident - there was a strong landslide in this area, which washed it into a ravine between two roads. Local historians, having discovered this artifact, immediately informed the archaeologists.
For a long time, researchers tried to decipher the symbols and drawings on the slab. To do this, they tried to find their relationship, using Hittite hieroglyphic writing.
According to the researchers, the slab has stratified into two fragments, each of which shows drawings of celestial bodies, fish and animals, and even dolmens. As a result, the researchers managed to decipher the ancient signs.
Interestingly, scientists could not decipher the inscriptions for a long time until they realized that they should be read in some places from right to left and from top to bottom.
There are semantic images next to each inscription. For example, one of the plots - a deer on a pole, is an ancient burial symbol that existed during the Maikop culture.
There is another plot - the seven-pointed star, but it is already characteristic of the Adyghe mythology. After analyzing the text and drawings, archaeologists came to the conclusion that in ancient times this slab could have been the wall of a dolmen or an ancient sanctuary. And the ancestors of the Circassians could build this sanctuary.
Before the discovery of the Loo plate, the Maikop plate was considered the most ancient writing artifact in the Caucasus, which archaeologists discovered back in the 60th year of the last century.
Eight years later, the slab was transported to the Northern capital. The text on it was also deciphered by local researchers. As it turned out, it was written in the ancient Abkhaz language.
Archaeologists believe that the inscriptions date back to the 1st-13th centuries BC. According to one version of the translation, the following is written there:
