The Gradeshnitsa tablets (Bulgarian language: Плочката от Градешница), unearthed in 1969 in north-western Bulgaria (Gradeshnitsa village,Vratsa Province), are, along with the Tartaria tablets, an important testimony of late neolithic proto-writing known as the Vinča signs. Bulgarian (български език IPA: ɛzˈik is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group The state of Bulgaria (България transliterated bg-Latn ''Balgaria'' The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name language and alphabet of the First Bulgarian Gradeshnitsa (bg Градешница is a village of the Vratsa Province, Bulgaria. Vratsa is a Province of north western Bulgaria, Neighbouring Romania. The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, discovered in Tărtăria, Romania. Neolithic Europe is the time between roughly from 7000 BC (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) to ca The history of writing encompasses the various Writing systems that evolved in the Early Bronze Age (late 4th millennium BC) The Vinča signs, also known as the Vinča alphabet Vinča-Turdaş script or Old European script, are a set of symbols found on prehistoric artifacts The tablets are dated to the 5th millennium BC and are currently preserved in the Vratsa Archeological Museum of Bulgaria. [1] In 2006, these tablets were the subject of attention in Bulgarian media due to claims made by Stephen Guide, a Bulgarian-American of the Institute of Transcendent Analysis, Long Beach, California, who claimed he had deciphered the tablets. Bulgarian Americans are Citizens of the United States with significant Bulgarian heritage California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. [2][3][4]