Topic ID #6689 - posted 1/14/2010 1:32 PM
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Mysterious Jamestown Tablet an American Rosetta Stone?
Jennifer Palmer
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Mysterious Jamestown Tablet an American Rosetta Stone?
Paula Neely
for National Geographic magazine
January 13, 2010
Slate may show early colonist efforts to communicate with Indians.
With the help of enhanced imagery and an expert in Elizabethan script, archaeologists are beginning to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images etched into a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered this past summer at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America.
Digitally enhanced images of the slate are helping to isolate inscriptions and illuminate fine details on the slate—the first with extensive inscriptions discovered at any early American colonial site, said William Kelso, director of research and interpretation at the 17th-century Historic Jamestowne site.
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Paula Neely
for National Geographic magazine
January 13, 2010
Slate may show early colonist efforts to communicate with Indians.
With the help of enhanced imagery and an expert in Elizabethan script, archaeologists are beginning to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images etched into a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered this past summer at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America.
Digitally enhanced images of the slate are helping to isolate inscriptions and illuminate fine details on the slate—the first with extensive inscriptions discovered at any early American colonial site, said William Kelso, director of research and interpretation at the 17th-century Historic Jamestowne site.
Read the rest of the story here.
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