The newly deciphered lead tablet reveals a binding curse written in ancient Greek, buried in a pit, and still full of unsolved mysteries.

The lead curse tablet was discovered in a city square in the Netherlands and recently deciphered by researchers in Germany ...

A tiny curse tablet excavated in the Dutch municipality of Heerlen allegedly invokes Egyptian deities and demons not in Latin ...

Heerlen curse tablet with an ancient Greek invocation of deities and demons in the Egyptian style. Credit: Elke Fuchs, ...

Roman Egypt was a world where magic, religion, fear, and ambition often overlapped. Curses, crocodile protection, rival ...

A crew of Dutch researchers have made strides in translating the spell laid out on a recently-surfaced Roman curse tablet.

A peculiar lead curse tablet, unearthed in the Netherlands, is rewriting our understanding of ancient Roman magic. Discovered ...

A Greek engraving on a 1,500-year-old lead tablet discovered in the ruins of an ancient theater in Israel has finally been deciphered, revealing a curse that may rival the modern-day backstabbing ...

A fiery ancient curse inscribed on two sides of a thin lead tablet was meant to afflict, not a king or pharaoh, but a simple greengrocer selling fruits and vegetables some 1,700 years ago in the city ...

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This fragment of an iron “curse tablet” was written by a magician 1,700 years ago in Jerusalem, for a wealthy Roman woman named Kyrilla. Calling upon the gods, the magician writes in this section: ...