Gradeshnitsa tablets

The Gradeshnitsa tablets (Bulgarian language: _bg. Плочката от Градешница), unearthed in 1969 in north-western Bulgaria (Gradeshnitsa village,Vratsa Province), are, along with the Tartaria tablets, an important testimony of late neolithic proto-writing known as the Vinča signs. The tablets are dated to the 5th millennium BC and are currently preserved in the Vratsa Archeological Museum of Bulgaria. [ [http://www.omda.bg/ENGL/history/selishte21_engl.htm The Gradeshnitsa Tablets] ] In 2006, these tablets were the subject of attention in Bulgarian media due to claims made by Stephen Guide, a Bulgarian-American of the Institute of Transcendent Analysis, Long Beach, California, who claimed he had deciphered the tablets. [ [http://www.institutet-science.com/en/gradeshnitzae.php Institute of Transcendent Science] ] [ [http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/reading-room-decoding-thracian-history-the-symbols-of-a-primitive-people/id_15359/catid_70 Reading Room: Decoding Thracian history: The Symbols of a Primitive People (Andrea Enright, 2006, Sofia Echo)] ] [ [http://www.standartnews.com/archive/2006/03/30/english/arts/index.htm Subchev, Konstantin. "Scandal Erupts Over the Most Ancient Writing." "Standart News". Thursday 30 March 2006.] "Stephan Gide who arrived from the USA to disclose sensational details about the ancient Thracian writing created a scandal in Bulgaria. The scientist, who claims to be an expert in linguistics, cryptography and transcendental analysis, announced that he had deciphered the inscriptions on an ancient tablet found in Gradeshnitsa. Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Science are explicit that Gide is an impostor, who has written his book on the basis of earlier discoveries filling the blanks with forfeited proofs. The real name of Gide is Gaidarski and, according to well informed sources, he is a spiritual leader of a religious cult defending a doctrine, which is a weird combination of Christian and ancient Orphistic beliefs."]

Literature

*Ivan Raikinski (ed.), Catalogue of the Vratsa Museum of History, 1990.

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