The oldest European text dates to 3,000 years

A handwriting clay tablet, dating back over 3,000 years, is considered the oldest European text, just discovered when scientists excavated the area in southern Greece.

According to archaeologist professor at Missouri-St Louis University (USA) Michael Cosmopoulos, this clay tablet appears to be a financial record, dating back more than a century to the text previously discovered in Europe.

On the surface of the clay plate, a list of names and numbers was written.

The word written on the board is Linear B , the Mycenae Greek pre-ancient form of writing, a civilization developed at the end of the Bronze Age in Greece. The Mycenae dominated much of Greece since 1600 BC and are believed to have carried out the Trojan War.

Europe's oldest textured clay sheet.(Source: Internet)

This clay plate is found near a hilltop village of Iklaina in the western Peloponnese peninsula. Archaeologists have discovered the devastated ruins of a large construction complex with tall, high earth walls, advanced murals and drainage, seemingly a palace and city. in the beginning of the Mycenae civilization, dating from about 1550-1400 BC.

Michael Cosmopoulos said the area may have been destroyed around 1400 BC. The existence of the clay plate engraved on it shows that the ancient Greeks were literate earlier than people thought.