For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty .

According to the late Greek archaeologist Dr George Hourmouziadis, who scrutinized the tablet until his death in 2013, its etchings resemble 'symbols' etched by a Neolithic people who once lived ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.