The letter was written by Móra to Márton Roska, an archaeology professor at the University of Kolozsvár (today Cluj in Romania) in 1910, Ferenc Móra Museum director Ferenc Horváth said. In the two-page letter, which has never been published, Móra writes about the Csóka archaeological dig in Vojvodina, in present-day Serbia. The excavation, which lasted seven years, yielded many valuable Late Stone Age findings. Interestingly, the dig is similar to another one the museum organised in southeast Hungary not more than ten years ago, Horváth said, adding that a collection of Móra?s writings on the Csóka dig were recently published.
Móra?s letters reveal that he had drafted a text on the Csóka findings, but failed to have the work published. The manuscript was later lost, but the letter acquired by the museum reveals a number of important details about the dig, such as when it ended, Horváth said.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
