To increase its power it has been written backwards and the tablet pierced with iron nails to fix the spell, and lead wire to deprive the victim of power. The curse ... in a Roman town in a ...

It is one of 130 surviving messages to the gods scratched on sheets of lead and thrown into the King's Spring in Roman times. Then a sacred spring, it was the focal point for worship of the ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered dozens of Roman-era graves of men ... unusual was the discovery of 21 curse tablets, which are small, rolled-up lead plates with inscriptions on them.

But some of the burials include small, rolled up lead plates — known as ... calling on the Roman god of war, Mars, to invoke a curse on a list of names for their injustice.

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