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Totenpass (plural Totenpässe) is a German term sometimes used for inscribed tablets or metal leaves found in burials primarily of those presumed to be initiates into Orphic, Dionysiac, and some ancient Egyptian and Semitic religions. The term may be understood in English as a "passport for the dead". [1]
The Pyrgi Tablets (dated c. 500 BC ... They may relate to Polybius's report (Hist. 3,22) of an ancient and almost unintelligible treaty between the Romans and the ...
In the 1830s, an inscribed gold tablet was unearthed at the ancient Greek site of Petelia near Strongoli in Calabria.Little is known of the circumstances of the find nor of its provenance subsequent to the find, before it was acquired by the British Museum from the archaeologist and collector James Millingen in 1843.
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.
Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. One warned, "A king will die." Archaeologists Finally Decoded a 4,000-Year-Old ...
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
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Clay tablets discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan have helped archaeologists locate an ancient lost city. Archaeologists form Germany’s University of Tübingen found 92 clay tablets during an ...