When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Imri Elya from Kibbutz Nirim found the artifact at Tel Jemmah, and turned it over to the National Treasures Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The 1.1-inch by 1.1-inch clay tablet is ...

Known as the Yavne Tablet, it’s named after the city where it was first found. When first unearthed by construction workers excavating to lay down railroad tracks through the Land of Israel to ...

Sotheby announced on Wednesday that a stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for over $5 million at auction to an anonymous buyer who plans to donate it to Israel. The auction house ...

The Samaritan tablet, on view in New York starting Dec. 5, disappeared after last going up for sale in 2016. The oldest stone inscription of the Ten Commandments will go up for auction next month ...

Over time this tablet has become one of the most significant and most studied objects of the ancient world. Dr Daniel Mansfield, of the University of New South Wales, who has studied Plimpton 322 ...