This 2,800-year-old code nobody can decipher

When it comes to archaeology, the existence of a mysterious language is a bit of a concern.

One such example is “Stella Montoro”, a carved stone tablet found on a field near Cordoba in Spain in 2002.

Researchers since she've been trying to decipher it. It's about great language confusion. With some abstract paintings, the elements are in Spanish, Greek, Iberian, South African. This makes the stone similar to that by Rosette, organized into a characteristic pattern of a mixture of ancient Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The problem exists in an uncertain understanding of “glyph”. Although they have been able to identify some of the language symbols, they, in contrast with Rosette's stone, are arranged in a particular model, so it is unclear whether there is a common word or a repeated phrase.

The team of scientists concluded that the tablet dates back to the Iron Age, and was created between the 9th and 3th centuries before the new era.

In contrast, the stone from Rosette, which enabled the deciphering of the writings of ancient Egypt, was discovered in 1799, near Rosette (now Rasid), located in the Nile Delta, some 65km from Alexandria.

During the rebuilding of the old castle, carried out by members of Napoleon's Exploration Corps (preparing for the attack by British and Turkish forces) in that area, Captain Pierre Bouchard saw a basalt plaque.

The French officer noted that the plaque contained three sections, each of which was written in another scripture, broadcasts Kosovas Prees.

He quickly realized the importance of his discovery and sent him to Cairo, where scholars who were part of Napoleon's expedition copied the texts on the tablet, and this later enabled the insight into the secrets of Egyptian writing é hieroglyphics, which has been a secret for many centuries, although many minds have tried to find out.

Two years later, the French army in Egypt was defeated and handed over, and all antiquity found in French possession, including the Rosette Stone, had to be handed over to the British. Today the original Rosette stone is found in the British Museum in London.