huedoara diggings
Romanian archaeologists have made ​​a sensational discovery in Hunedoara County, Romania. They discovered a huge city, the oldest in Transylvania, and even older than the Egyptian pyramids.

It happens often when the romanian archeologists have the chance to recover what existed on the lands where the romanian territory is settled. What they recovered is hidden under layers of soil, but only when the authorities want to build something new there. In this case, it is the oldest town in Transylvania which was built around 4200 B.C., even before the egyptyan pyramids (2630 - 2311 B.C.). The settlement was discovered while road workers were digging to arrange Nadlac - Sibiu highway.

IT COVERS 100 HECTARES

The site was located in Turdas, Hunedoara County, and it covers 100 hectares, it has fortifications, neighborhoods, and around the ruins was found a lot of valuable vases and statues. "A defense system from that time could not be investigated anywhere in Europe: it is very expensive. But we had this chance because of the new highway construction", declared Sabin Adrian Luca, research coordinator.


Comment: That the excavation is made under the guidance of big business [In this case the Austrian construction company Strabag] may be the reason why we have never hear about this dig outside small notes in Romanian press.


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7000 YEARS OLD WRITINGS IN THE SAME AREA

The oldest writings in the world belongs to the Turdas civilization(7000 years old). They are the famous clay tablets discovered in 1961, at Tartaria, which is located between Alba Iulia and Orastie. They are engraved with signs similar of Sumerian writing, but they are older with at least 1000 years than any other alphabet. The writings still remained undeciphered.


Translated by: Edgitarra