Traces of Lost Language and Decimal Number System Discovered in Peru (fwd link)

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Traces of Lost Language and Decimal Number System Discovered in Peru

Submitted by Ann on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 12:55

The back side of the Magdalena document shows translations for numbers from
Spanish to a lost language. Photo by Jeffrey Quilter.
Excavations at a Colonial Period site on the North Coast of Peru have
revealed the first traces of a lost language.  Sometime in the early 17th
century, a Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four
hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing
how Peruvian natives used numbers.

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