Thanks very much to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for pointing out the English language version of this story. Egyptian hieroglyphs, drawn on Roman stone and ceramic, have been found at the site of Iruña-Veleia in northern Spain, dating to the third century AD (almost 500 years after they had begun to fall out of use in Egypt itself). The Spanish site also shown below has some good photographs.
http://tinyurl.com/gn8xf (eitb24.com)
"A 57-square metre room was found in that town, sealed as in a 'time capsule with its contents untouched,' and inside there were feeding remains and fragments of different recipients and other tools that had been used for writing. The Egypt expert of the University of Barcelona Montserrat Rius has explained that some Latin inscriptions refer to the ancient Egyptian history and its divinities, and has noted there are also hieroglyphic inscriptions 'with a perfect layout' that make experts think they were taught to children."
http://tinyurl.com/qo9v4 (terraeantiqvae.blogia.com)
Los trozos cerámicos están datados también en el siglo III. Esa escritura de los faraones se había dejado de utilizar en Egipto casi 500 años antes. En Veleia se mimaba la escritura de jeroglíficos. O, al menos, se dedicaba algo de tiempo a trazar tan complejos símbolos a mano alzada. Pero, sobre todo, se hacía casi 500 años después de que empezara a olvidarse la correcta lectura de esa escritura en su lugar de origen, a orillas del Nilo."
http://tinyurl.com/gn8xf (eitb24.com)
"A 57-square metre room was found in that town, sealed as in a 'time capsule with its contents untouched,' and inside there were feeding remains and fragments of different recipients and other tools that had been used for writing. The Egypt expert of the University of Barcelona Montserrat Rius has explained that some Latin inscriptions refer to the ancient Egyptian history and its divinities, and has noted there are also hieroglyphic inscriptions 'with a perfect layout' that make experts think they were taught to children."
http://tinyurl.com/qo9v4 (terraeantiqvae.blogia.com)
Los trozos cerámicos están datados también en el siglo III. Esa escritura de los faraones se había dejado de utilizar en Egipto casi 500 años antes. En Veleia se mimaba la escritura de jeroglíficos. O, al menos, se dedicaba algo de tiempo a trazar tan complejos símbolos a mano alzada. Pero, sobre todo, se hacía casi 500 años después de que empezara a olvidarse la correcta lectura de esa escritura en su lugar de origen, a orillas del Nilo."
The full details, with images, can be found on the above website (in Spanish).
For more about the site of Iruña-Veleia in English, see:
(If you like to see Flash used really well, and you have Flash 8 installed, click on the Location link - nice to see Flash being used to do something useful).
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