Article Title

Etruscan Gold Book from 600 B.C. Discovered

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Keywords

museum, history, archaeology, translation, Book of Mormon

Abstract

The Bulgarian National Museum of History in Sofia, Bulgaria, recently placed on public display an ancient book comprising six pages of 23.82-karat gold (measuring 5 centimeters in length and 4.5 centimeters in width) bound together by gold rings. The plates contain a text written in Etruscan characters and also depict a horse, a horseman, a Siren, a lyre, and soldiers. According to Elka Penkova, who
heads the museum’s archaeology department, the find may be the oldest complete book in the world, dating to about 600 B.C.

Recommended Citation

(2003) "Etruscan Gold Book from 600 B.C. Discovered," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 23: No. 5, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol23/iss5/1