Early Scribbles

The extraordinary finds continue at San Bartolo up in the Petén jungle: 10 glyphs, painted on stucco which are said to be 2300 years old (300-200BC) making them the earliest known examples of the Maya script. (Too early in fact to be deciphered.) They were discovered by archaeologist Boris Beltran last April and were yesterday being catalogued in a laboratory in Antigua.