On our second visit to this superb museum, we made our greatest discovery of all -- a book of six gold plates bound together with metal rings, apparently in the lost Etruscan language. One of our students translated the inscribed label roughly as follows: "The Book of Orpheus, 4th century B.C. Etruscan gold sheets from a wall tomb. Donated by an anonymous Bulgarian patron living in Ohrid, Macedonia." Although quite small (3" by 2-1/2"), this was similar to the original source that became the Book of Mormon and was created during the same period. An article by the Ancient America Foundation article in Meridian Magazine (April 2007) said that this was discovered 60 years ago in a tomb uncovered while a canal was being dug near the Strouma River in S.W. Bulgaria.
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