Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences is located next to the largest and most significant prehistoric Neolithic settlement in the Eastern Europe. The Vinca culture was an early culture of Europe (between the 6th and the 3rd millenium BC), stretching around the course of Danube in Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and the republic of Macedonia, although traces of it can be found all around the Balkans, parts of Central Europe and Asia Minor. At that time, Vinca was a metropolis with a flourishing culture, at the place where across the valleys of the Bolecica and Danube Rivers a joyful relief of Sumadija meets with the plain of Banat. Between 4500 and 3500 BC it was a major prehistoric settlement. Thus, Vinca is a notion signifying nowadays the peak of Neolithic farming settled culture in Europe. More about Vinca culture can be found here.

Many artifacts excavated on the Vinca archaeological site are inscribed with strange symbols. Those symbols are unique for Vinca culture. Some scholars believe that the Vinca symbols represent the earliest form of writing ever found, predating ancient Egyptian and Sumerian writing by thousands of years. Since the inscriptions are all short and appear on objects found in burial sites and the language represented is not known, it is highly unlikely they will ever be deciphered. However, the Vinca script is now used in a way its creators could never thought of: It is used in our group's logo thanks to Dr. Sorin Paliga from the University of Bucharest, who created a font based on this ancient script.