Trembling Finding in Archaeology: Decipher Petelia's Golden Table and Discover a Manual to Cross the Underworld

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On a hill in southern Italy, where more than two thousand years ago the ancient Petelia was raised, a fragment of gold came to light to change the way in which death was understood in classical Greece. It is not a jewel, nor an ornamental amulet. The golden tablet of petelia was, and is, something much more intimate since apparently it is actually a written guide to be used at the time the soul leaves the body. A minimal leaf intended to accompa…