PORTUGAL - Experts trying to decipher ancient language - HISTORY

Amilcar Guerra, a University of Lisbon lecturer, shows on Feb. 5, 2009 where his team found a stone tablet with symbols at least 2,500 years old while working at the Roman ruins outside Almodovar, southern Portugal.

The tablet, features 86 characters that provide the longest running text of the Iron Age extinct Iberian language called Southwest Script.


(AP Photo/
Armando Franca)