nothing in common with what linguists expect to be Dacian language, as no correlation with the Romanian language substrate can be found. Also, unlike any known Indo-European language, it appears to have almost no inflections, nor declensions. In addition, almost all nouns end in "-o", including names which had other endings in Latin and Greek, e.g. , , and . There are some words borrowed from Greek ( from , , from ) and Latin, but some important words such as the alleged words for "king" () and "priest" () do not appear to have any known Indo-European cognates. Debate and author The scholarly consensus is that they are modern forgeries. According to the director of the Institute of Archaeology, Alexandru Vulpe, it is obvious they were made in 19th century and this was the opinion of both Vasile Pârvan and the archaeologists who studied them after him, some believing they were created by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who is known to have made other forgeries as well. According to Vulpe, the tablets include only what was known before 1900, for example, it uses the spelling "Comidava" for a Dacian town, although now it is known that the correct spelling is "Cumidava", as found in 1942 in an honorific inscription dedicated to Julia Mamaea. See also Tărtăria tablets Gradeshnitsa tablets Lead Books of Sacromonte, forged inscriptions on lead plates References Bibliography Dumitru Manolache, Tezaurul dacic de la Sinaia – legendă sau adevăr ocultat?, Editura Dacica, 2006 Bucurescu, Adrian, Tainele tăblițelor de la Sinaia, Editura Arhetip, 2005 Romalo, Dan, Cronica apocrifă pe plăci de plumb?, Arvin Press, București, 2003 Romalo, Dan, Cronica getă apocrifă pe plăci de plumb, Editura Alcor, București, 2005 Velcescu, Cornelia, Inscripții rupestre din Munții Carpați, Editura MIRACOL, Burești, 2002 Horia Turcanu (Formula AS): "Misterul tăblițelor de plumb" Academia Republicii Popular Romîne, Documente privind istoria Romîniei: Introducere, 1956 Emil Vîrtosu, Paleografia româno-chirilică, Ed. Științifică, 1968 Horace Gray Lunt, Old Church Slavonic Grammar, Walter de Gruyter, 2001 Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Aryan Alphabets, Kessinger Publishing, 2003 (1899) Isaac Taylor, Greeks and Goths a Study on the Runes, Kessinger Publishing, 2004 (1879) Winfred Philipp Lehmann, Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, Routledge, 1992 (1962) External links Photo Gallery at Bibliotheca Dacica [broken link] A possible Dacian royal archive on lead plates Dacian Lead Tablets and Codex Rochonczi, Fake or Real? Din tainele istoriei: misterul plăcuţelor de la Sinaia (in Romanian, with