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Cultural treasure for Myanmar

The Golden Letter from Myanmar is to be replicated for the future National Museum of Myanmar.

21.01.2014
© Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek Hannover - Golden Letter Cultural Heritage

The Federal Foreign Office is having the Golden 
Letter from Myanmar replicated for the future National Museum. King Alaungphaya of Burma sent it to King George II of England in 1756. At the time, it was engraved with pure gold plating and studded with rubies on the sides. The original can be found in the former Royal 
Library in Hanover.

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