It dates back to before the introduction of Islam.. Antiquities experts in Morocco find the "Tifinagh Rock"
The Moroccan scientific team while finding the "Tifinagh Rock"
After activists on social platforms shared pictures of it last February, the National Institute of Archeology and Heritage in Morocco was recently able to locate the "Tifinagh Rock", which dates back to before the advent of Islam.
The institute stated, in a press statement, on Friday, that a scientific team of experts and researchers found a rock bearing the letters “Tifinagh” in the Settat region (south of Casablanca), contrary to what was previously indicated on social networking sites that it is located in the Walaja Sidi Abed region in the El Jadida province, which is far away. About 100 km from Settat.
According to the data of the statement, the rock was discovered and transferred to a safe place for the purpose of study and documentation, while a previous statement, after examining its photographs, stated that it was "a tombstone bearing a funerary inscription consisting of a vertical line and written in Libyan letters," adding that "the aforementioned inscription belongs to the previous ancient era." on the advent of Islam.
Tifinagh rock found in Settat, Morocco
And the professor at the National Institute of Archeology and Heritage in Morocco, Abdel Aziz Al-Khayari, who examined the images of the rock, had explained that he had been working on Libyan writing for nearly 20 years, and through his studies he concluded that "these inscriptions have alphabets that were used in different dates and regions."
And the Moroccan expert continued in a previous statement that "knowing that this stone is an inscription was based on a study and based on other inscriptions that had the same characteristics and start in the same way, which is the reason why we say that it is a funeral inscription for a tomb," and it is likely that it bears the name of the deceased.
Al-Khayari stated that about 50 to 60 similar funerary inscriptions were found at the beginning of the twentieth century with graves, which indicates that they are "tombstones", including those dating back to the pre-Roman period.
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