* Astronomy

The Kosovo Association of Stone Art Research, KRARA, last weekend undertook an expedition in Kosovos central Drenica region, coming across a schematic model of an ancient script.
This is the second locality in Drenica with a big cultural interest for Kosovo. A while ago KRARA in collaboration with the Institute for the Conservation of Monuments, Regional Museum of Prishtina and the Cultural Ministry had registered and decoded the menhirs or monumental stones of Aqareva nearby.
Such writings are very important documents of a writing system completed and saved in one place, and most ancient found so far in Kosovo.

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 During a road construction in Kharg Island of Bushehr Province, in the Persian Gulf, the workers have unearthed an Old-Persian inscription belonging to the Achaemenid dynastic era..
The accidental discovery was reported to the cultural authorities by a vigilant local and so the construction project was stopped and a team of experts were deployed to the island.
The inscription which is dated by the experts from ICHTTO to 400 BCE.

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Transcription:
 a ha .ha
sa a na . .a a s.na . ..
za ha ma i vazahamai   
ba ha na ma . bahanama
xa a x.
 
Translation:   
 The not irrigated land was (became) happy
 (with) my bringing out (water).
 Bahana   wells

Archaeologists have discovered the world's most ancient inscription in the Iranian city of Jiroft, near the Halil Roud historical site.

"The inscription, discovered in a palace, was carved on a baked mud-brick whose lower left corner has only remained. The only ancient inscriptions known to experts before the Jiroft discovery were cuneiform and hieroglyph, the new-found inscription is formed by geometric shapes and no linguist around the world has been able to decipher it yet - Professor Yousof Majid-Zadeh, head of the Jiroft excavation team.

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Neolithic graves in central China may hide the world's earliest writing, if the “signs” craved into 8,600-year-ld tortoise shells can be deciphered by academics.
The claim, made by a team of Chinese and American researchers in the March isue of Antiquity, a journal based at Cambridge University, Britain, has triggered heated debate among the world's archaeologists.

The debate centres on the origin of the writing.

The earliest writing on earth is commonly believed to have evolved in what is today's southern Iraq about 5,200 years ago. There, the settlers invented cuneiform, a way of arranging impressions stamped on clay by a wedge.
It is commonly recognised that writing didn't emerge in China until 2nd millennia BC, about 2,000 years after it appeared in Iraq.

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