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Event · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

Crawford finds the tablet signs lack the properties of natural language

A computer analysis of 34 tablets from Morlet's Corpus, compared with Basque, Berber, Chinese, Finnish and Iberian corpora, found none of the statistical features of natural-language text.

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Crawford finds the tablet signs lack the properties of natural language [Event EVT0DEDRBFX88DN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0DEDRBFX88DN
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