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4,000-Year-Old Slab May Be a Treasure Map for Long-Lost Bronze Age Riches

Mysterious engravings on an ancient stone slab, long relegated to the storage area of an ancient castle, might reveal the locations of long-lost Bronze Age treasure. ....

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Forgotten Stone Slab May Actually Be The Oldest Known Map in Europe

Forgotten Stone Slab May Actually Be The Oldest Known Map in Europe
7 APRIL 2021
The markings are unfamiliar: carved contours that now only hint at a lost landscape from long ago. Nonetheless, a large, mysterious slab of stone recently rediscovered in France looks like it might just be the oldest known map in Europe.

In a new study, researchers re-examined the Saint-Bélec slab – an intricately carved, partly broken slab of stone first found in 1900, before being set aside in a castle and largely forgotten about for over 100 years.
Only now are modern archaeologists reappraising the slab and learning its significance – specifically, that it could in fact represent the most ancient cartographical depiction of known land in Europe. ....

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