LETTER FROM MOSES.
A TABLET DECIPHERED. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) BERLIN, Oc,t; 20. Professor Grimme, the Egyptologist, claims that he has deciphered part of one of the tablets discovered by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1905 on Mount Sinai. He is convinced it was inscribed on a tablet set up by Moses himself as a record of gratitude to Pharaoh’s daughter for rescuing him from the Nile. Following certain clues, Dr. Grimme and other professors gradually worked out the entire alphabet of 22 letters, from which it appeared the language of the inscriptions is almost identical with Biblical Hebrew. Dr Grimme is emphatic that this is genuinely* the first writing in sentences dating back 1500 years before Christ.
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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16625, 22 October 1925, Page 5
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