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Meso America
Meso America
Peabody Museum at Harvard has one of the best Mesoamerican collections. Very few people know that among these artifacts extracted from Mexico are golden plates. Most of which were made from a copper-gold alloy and have Mayan hieroglyphs and other symbols on them.
No major studies have been done on the plates
Dr. Jose Padilla - Jose Davila
Dr. Jose Padilla - Jose Davila
Between 1952 and 1956, a tomb in Guerrero, Mexico, was "excavated" by Dr. Jesus Padilla Orozco and his companions. Many gold objects were found and distributed among other men participating on the tomb excavation. Jesus chose to take twelve small plates because the writing on them interested him. Five of these plates were eventually turned over to Jose Davila, and seven were retained by Dr. Padilla. In the 1970's, Dr. Paul Cheesman of Brigham Young University (BYU) tried unsuccessfully to share this find with modern academia, but was rebuffed, due in large part by Ray T. Matheny, secretary for the New World Archaeological Foundation (NWAF) who published a paper declaring the plates a modern forgery, based largely on the opinion of a Las Vegas jeweler.
Meanwhile, Dr. Padilla & Jose Davila had continued their excavations...
Dixon - "It's NOT bragging, IF you can do it" - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dixon - "It's NOT bragging, IF you can do it" - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Other parts of the world...
Other parts of the world...
Darius I Persepolis Gold Plates
Darius I Persepolis Gold Plates
The Apadana hoard was found by archeologists in 1938, in Persepolis, near modern day Shiraz, Iran. There were two gold plates and two silver plates in a stone box, written on in cuneiform script. The plates date to 518 – 515 BC.
The Copper Scroll, found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran by an archeologist in 1952. Its Hebrew text was inscribed on two rolls of coppper, and dates to 50-100 AD.
Etruscan Gold Book
Etruscan Gold Book
This is believed to be the oldest complete multiple page book found in the world. It is made of six plates of gold, each 5 x 4.5 cm, and bound with two rings. It dates to 600 BC.
It was unearthed from a tomb some 60-70 years ago, along the Strouma River in southwestern Bulgaria. It was donated to the Bulgarian National Museum of History in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2003.
Karnataka Copper Plate
Karnataka Copper Plate
From The Hindu Online November 19, 2009 Copper plate inscription throws new light on Alupas Pramod Mellegatti SHIMOGA
A decree on these bronze plates issued by the Roman emperor Trajan in 109 A.D., awarding citizenship and other honors to retiring soldiers who served in the conquest of Dacia (Romania), called the constituto. On the backside of plate 2, the names of seven witnesses or officials are given, which serve to authenticate this decree...
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