The ancient script has left many locals scratching their heads 🧐
Carved into the granite of a bridge pier on the Clyde is Glasgow's own little version of the Rosetta Stone: a message, rather curiously, written in both English and Ancient Greek.
READ MORE: The missing Scots girl found on board Africa-bound ship two weeks after vanishing into thin air Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox Edinburgh-born Hamilton Finlay, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art and is well-known for creating carved poems and sculptures, selected the thought-provoking Plato quote to appear on the piers.
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