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TIL - Spanish archeologist Eliseo Gil Zubillaga in 2006 anounce the discovery of inscriptions on some pieces from the III-V century, in which you could see figures of daily life, a cross of Christ, mythological characters, hieroglyphics and texts in Latin, Greek and Basque wich resulted to be fake.

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