Friday, June 17, 2005

MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN ARTIFACTS:
Jewellery find puzzles Russians (BBC)

Archaeologists in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad have uncovered 16th century jewellery which they say is unlike any found in the area before.

They were found in a 10cm round box during an excavation at the site of a medieval castle in the city.

It contained 11 items made of gold, silver, tin and hematite, covered with hieroglyphs and inscriptions in Hebrew, ancient Greek and Latin.

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Archaeologists think the rings and amulets might have belonged to a counsellor of Albrecht, Duke of Prussia, who had an interest both in astrology and black magic.

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I know the artifacts aren't ancient, but they were excavated and are inscribed with Hebrew, ancient Greek, and Latin esoterica; so, close enough. The article has a picture of one of the rings, but the face is angled away from the camera so that any inscription on it is unreadable.

UPDATE: Wieland Willker e-mails a link to an article in Spiegel which has photos of two of the artifacts. They can be enlarged by clicking on them. The second has the Latin word Deus and the angelic name "Rabiel" on it, along with other words in Roman letters and a lot of alchemical-looking symbols that I can't identify.

UPDATE: Joe Cathey e-mails:
While reading this post I couldn�t but help notice that the rings might be possibly left over from the Third Age. It could be a vicious trick by none other then Melkor himself to trick us into falling for his trap. We are not told actually how the nine ringwraiths fell from their perches of power. As you can tell I just again finished �Fellowship of the Ring + Hobbit + Similarion.�

Hmmm ... better not try any of those rings on.

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