INSCRIBED BY MOSES
3400-YEAR-OLD TABLET DECIPHERED. DISCOVERED ON MOUNT SINAI. BERLIN, Oct. 20. Professor Grimme, the well-known 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 that it was inscribed on a stone tablet set up by Moses himself as a record of gratitude to Pharaoh’s daughter for his rescue from the Nile. Following certain clues, Professor Grimme and other professors gradually worked out an entire alphabet of twenty-two letters, from which it appeared that the language of the inscriptions was almost identical with tho Biblical Hebrew. Professor Grimme is emphatic that this is genuinely the first writing in sentences, dating back 1500 years before Christ.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19435, 22 October 1925, Page 4
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