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Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars
Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.
Excavations underneath an 18th-century hospital in the town of Orléans, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of Paris, have revealed more than 60 burials arranged in a single row along a wall. (Image credit: Service Archéologie Orléans (SAVO))The man in grave F2199 was buried with a curse tablet between his legs, next to a crushed vase and several coins. (Image credit: Service Archéologie Orléans (SAVO))While Gaulish continued to be used for several centuries after the Roman conquest of the area, it was seldom written down — so the curse tablets are already yielding important new examples of this vanished language.
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