In 1961, in Tartaria, in Alba County, the Romanian archeologist, Nicolae Vlasa made a huge discovery that was recognized by the foreigners, but denied by some Romanian historians. It is about three clay slates with a pletograph similar to that of the Sumerians`, but much older.

The famous writings of Djemer-Nasr, Kis and Uruk, in Sumer, that had determined the historians to sustain that the Sumerian writing was the oldest one in the world, dated back in 3300 B.C. The burnt clay slates discovered by Nicolae Vlasa, dated 7000 years ago, that was 1000 year older that those of Sumer. They dated them through the radioactive carbon method. Some of the Romanian historians showed skepticism regarding this discovery, considering that the slates had been brought in a merchant's bag from Sumer. Some others treated, the discovery responsibly, reaching an astonishing conclusion that is, the Sumerians got to Mesopotamia by migrating from the old Dacia and carrying an already-well known writing, with them. Moreover, the researcher Marija Gimbutas (in the U.S.A.) considers the area stretching from the Balkans to the Danube and to the Carpathians as the European civilization cradle.

The Geto-Dacians of Mesopotamia

The great migration started early in the forth century, B.C. "According to the unanimous opinion, Sumerians came to Sumer, at about half of the fourth millennium… Mostly there is a concordance of opinions regarding the fact that Sumerians came from mountain areas. V. Zamarowski wrote in his famous book called "There was first, Sumer", "Their religion proclaimed that their gods lived on the mountain picks. Therefore, they built mountain shaped temples in their new country because there were not any mountains, there". The Russian historian N. Jirinov, following this idea, declared in "Znanie Sila" magazine that Sumerians migrated from the Balkan Peninsula, taking their calendar with them. Yet, they changed it because it did not fit with the day and night length of their latitude. The Pole astronomer Ludwig Zaidler, used the same proof in his book called "The Clocks` History", in order to demonstrate the Sumerian migration from the Carpathians area. N. Jirov also outlined that the Sumerian language was totally different from that of their Semite neighbours and their writing established their ancestors` origins in a mountain country. Vladimir I. Georgiev, a Bulgarian academician, confirmed Marija Gimbutas` radioactive carbon researches regarding the slates` age.

The blackletter – stolen from the Dacians` ancestors

The Belgian academician Bonaventura Vulcanius Burgensis, in his book entitled "About the Letters of the Dacians` Ancestors'', published in Lyon, in 1957, looks into more alphabets supposed to be black lettered comparing them to the primitive one of the Dacians` ancestors. He confesses that he inspired from "The history of All Finn and Dacians` Ancestors'' written by the archbishop of Uppsala, Joannes Magnus Gothus, and published in Rome, in 1554. This book presented the Dacians` ancestors alphabet for the first time. Magnus Gothus proved that the archbishop of Wulfila (303-383 A.D.) had invented the black-lettered alphabet inspiring from that one of the Dacians` ancestors. Wullfila translated the Bible, known under the name of Codex Argenteus, using this alphabet considered the latest one at that time. Both Vulcanius and Magnus used very rare medieval and antique sources that are no longer available, nowadays. One of these sources was Cato's speeches where they quoted from: "… the heroic acts of the Dacians` ncestors had been praised by their poets, accompanied by a flute playing, long before Rome`s foundation…". Not only Cato the Wise Man but Publius Ovidius Naso, the erudite poet (43 B.C.-17 A.D.), was a genuine eye witness, also. He lived in exile, among these people, in the north of the Roman Empire and he learned their language, he wrote poems in it. One of these poems has been preserved as a summery in Pontica. Surprisingly, those who most sustained the idea that the slates of Tartaria are the first world alphabet were not the Romanian scientists but the foreign ones. Nevertheless, they have not done anymore diggingst Tartaria since the year of the enigmatic slates discovery. The National History Museum of ransylvania, in Cluj, preserves them and nothing has been said about their scientific and historic importance for the past years. Some researchers have been trying again, to clear up the truth about the past, debating over the priceless value of the slates of Tartaria.
 

The read-in

Specialists assert that these slates have in common n identity known as the culture of Turda-Vinca (4500- 700 B.) that spread in Banat and Oltenia in our country, in he south of Serbia, in the south-east of Hungary and in
the north-west of Bulgaria. The conclusion that they have got to, was that the
writing on the slates would be: BAB-SARRU/RABUDU-KI-USU-EN/ZU-GIRA-PATESI-III-BANSUR-MUNANNAR-RABU/ZU-II-DINGIR-II-DINGIRA, that means: "The entering gate of the great king that rules the four counties of the mighty moon and fire gods country, of the princes that serve the meal for the sacrifice o the sacred trinity (AN, ENKI, ENLIL-I), and of the famous north moon god, the one that makes food and drink richer, after the two gods and goddesses Igigi) have disappeared.

The Culture of Turdas-Vinca

Tartaria is located on the banks of river Mures, at the foot of the northern slope of the mountain Sureanu. It is 50 km away from the Cave Bordu mare (where they found bones of the Neanderthal man), 40 km away from the Cave Cioclovina (where they found bones of the Cro-Magnon man that is also near to the ld place called Turdas. Here, they dug out an old establishment having the same materials as those of Tartaria. They also found a cylindrical pot that was older than the cylindrical seals of Sumer. The features of these materials etermined the specialists to create their own identity called the Culture of urdas-Vinca (4500- 3700 B.C.)

Bibliography: „Magazin istoric”, „Flacara”, „Dacia”, „Gardianul”, „Jurnalul National”