PLOT SPOILER: what we think is the Dispilio Tablet is actually something else. Is it early writing from 5,000 BC? Not so fast ...
There we were, innocently looking for good locations to shoot for Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge (see below) and we come upon the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio in northern Greece.
All well and good.
Then it came to light that there was such a thing as the Dispilio Tablet, which seemed to have a very significant claim to fame: the earliest writing?
And so it began ...
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00:00 - Intro & titles
00:55 - Where it all began
02:30 - Genesis of a controversy
06:43 - The internet adopts the wrong tablet
08:26 - Is there writing on the original?
09:23 - The error grows
11:14 - An explanation for the marks on the tablet
14:42 - Where is the original?
15:21 - An early retraction and bizarre interpretations
17:04 - What about the 'imposter tablet'?
20:28 - Beware the internet!
21:49 - Rounding up & goodbyes
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