The Golden Letter is a manuscript written on rolled gold in the Burmese language, which was sent on 7 May 1756 by King Alaungpaya of Burma to the King George II of Great Britain in London. It is now preserved at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover.[1] In October 2015, the Golden Letter was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register,[2] as a common heritage of Myanmar, Germany, and the United Kingdom.[3]
The Golden Letter. The mythical bird Hamsa is depicted on the left. Rows of rubies are set on both left and right. Damage from 1768 can be recognized at bottom-right.
^Jacques P. Leider: King Alaungmintaya’s Golden Letter to King George II …, pg. 7.
^Fünf deutsche Neueinträge im „Memory of the World“-Register (in German), unesco.de
^"The Golden Letter of the Burmese King Alaungphaya to King George II of Great Britain". UNESCO Memory of the World. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
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