The history of the tablets translated in the following pages is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years B.C. The writer is Thoth,

History of the Tablet (largely summarised from Needham 1980, & Holmyard 1957): The Tablet probably first appeared in the West in editions of the psuedo-Aristotlean Secretum Secretorum which was actually