Hebrews had Trading Center in Gaul 1,500 Years before Christian Era; Discovery Startles Scholars (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Further clues as to the character of the script claimed to be the first form of the alphabet, invented by the Hebrews and contained in the Sinai tablets found by Sir Flinders Petrie on Mount Sinai, were discovered on tablens unearthed at Glozel, near Tours, France.
The tablets which were tombstone inscriptions are a part of the find made recently at Glozel, Scholars were unable to decipher the inscriptions. Professor Volten, famous Swiss archaeologist, has now come forward with a statement in which he declares that he has succeeded in deciphering the inscriptions. According to Dr. Volten the language of these inscriptions is identical with what is termed “old Hebrew” and the script is similar to the inscriptions found by-Sir Flinders Petrie in the copper mines on the Sinai Peninsula, dating back to the reign of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Hatchopsok and Thutmoses.
The Glozel tablets are a part of a collection of pre-historic antiquities which had engaged the attention of the entire scientific world and have been declared to be genuine by many French scientists including the well known French Jewish scholar. Solomon Reinach. A subsequent inquiry of other students of archaeology, however, has developed doubts as to the authenticity of the tablets.
According to Dr. Volton, the Glozel tablets date back to the end of the Neolithic period and are probably the records of the settlement of Semites from the Sinai Peninsula at Glozel, where they had established a trading center.
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