1800-year-old Roman curse tablet deciphered by Heidelberg University researchers
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Vittoria Benzine
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Researchers from Heidelberg University have deciphered an 1800-year-old Roman curse tablet unearthed in Heerlen, Netherlands. The tablet, found in a pit beneath the town hall square at the site of the former Roman settlement Coriovallum, bears a multicultural group curse. Dutch archaeologists discovered it in an area that was once part of the Via Belgica, a Roman road connecting Tongeren to Cologne. The tablet provides insight into the multicultural nature of the Roman frontier and the practice of curse tablets (defixiones) in the ancient world.
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· 3 pulledResearchers from Germany's Heidelberg University have been surprised to find that a recently unearthed 1800-year-old Roman tablet bears a multicultural group curse on its surface.
Dutch archaeologists found this curse tablet in a pit beneath Heerlen's town hall square.
Today, the baths at Coriovallum remain the Netherlands's largest visible Roman ruins.
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