The following is a more recent and very striking example:-- THE ASSYRIAN PRIEST Herr H.V.Hilprecht is Professor of Assyriology in the University of Pennsylvania.

That university had despatched an expedition to explore the ruins of Babylon, and sketches of the objects discovered had been sent home.

Among these were drawings of two small fragments of agate, inscribed with characters.

One Saturday night in March, 1893, Professor Hilprecht had wearied himself with puzzling over these two fragments, which were supposed to be broken pieces of finger-rings.
He was inclined, from the nature of the characters, to date them about 1700-1140 B.C.; and as the first character of the third line of the first fragment seemed to read KU, he guessed that it might stand for Kurigalzu, a king of that name.
About midnight the professor went, weary and perplexed, to bed.
"Then I dreamed the following remarkable dream.

A tall thin priest of the old pre-Christian Nippur, about forty years of age, and clad in a simple abba, led me to the treasure-chamber of the temple, on its south-east side.