Ancient Metal Tablets

In central Utah, during the 1950's, a man from Sanpete County, Utah, had been busy excavating a tunnel in the mountains west of the town of Manti.  During the excavation, he uncovered an entrance that led to an ancient burial chamber, that contained two very large mummies. In the caskets with these two mummies were several gold and copper tablets, a five-foot sword attatched to the male mummy, many jewels attatched to the female mummy and other artifacts.  Several of the gold and copper tablets were removed for testing and further examinations. Similar finds had been made in Ohio and Michigan.  The famous Soper/Savage collections contain many tablets made from gold, lead, copper, bronze and black slate.  Amazingly, some of the inscriptions found on the Soper/Savage tablets can also be seen on tablets from the Sanpete find.