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If the plague started in Siberia and spread west for a few hundred years before decimating the early European farming communities, that might explain why steppe herders moved in from the east to repopulate: they would already have recovered from the plague a generation or two earlier.

“Generally, the Bashplemi inscription does not repeat any script known to us; however, most of the symbols used therein resemble ones found in the scripts of the Middle East, as well as those of geographically remote countries such as India, Egypt and West Iberia,” wrote Shengelia.

So it resembles practically everything except Chinese?