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Glozel is a small hamlet in Ferrière-sur-Sichon, a rural district in the French Bourbonnais near Vichy, Central France. In the 1920s, it became an archaeological ‘hot spot’ when various strange artefacts made of clay and stone were ‘discovered’ in a field there. These objects included clay tablets containing writing in an unknown script, which suggested that writing had appeared there earlier than anywhere else. Authentic items to some scholars, but forgeries to others, the Glozel finds quickly became one of the most famous scientific controversies of the twentieth century in France, even involving the judiciary.