Davenport Tablets
"The Davenport Tablets are three inscribed slate tablets found in mounds near Davenport, Iowa.
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University of Iowa Professor, Marshall McKusick, now refers to the find and the circumstances surrounding it as “The Davenport Conspiracy”. McKusick suggested that the tablets were modified roof tiles stolen off a neighboring building of the Davenport Academy museum even though Gass described finding them in a burial mound on the Cook family farm."
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University of Iowa Professor, Marshall McKusick, now refers to the find and the circumstances surrounding it as “The Davenport Conspiracy”. McKusick suggested that the tablets were modified roof tiles stolen off a neighboring building of the Davenport Academy museum even though Gass described finding them in a burial mound on the Cook family farm."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Davenport Tablets' (accessed 10/5/2016)
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Online Media
- "Ken's Excellent Epigraphy Trip, Davenport Tablets, and the Kensington Rune Stone" (ArchyFantasies podcast, Episode 36, 5/9/2016)
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