Daily Mail

Oldest carving of the Ten Commandments could sell for $2million... after being used as paving slab: 1,500-year-old stone tablet spent 30 years outside Israeli home before it ...

The marble slab was found in Israel in 1913 but then spent 30 years being used as a paving stone at the entrance of a home before its significance was spotted. The stone, which weighs 115 pounds and ...
The Independent

Is this ‘forgery’ actually the oldest-known biblical manuscript?

In 1883, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer named Moses Wilhelm Shapira announced the discovery of a remarkable artefact: 15 manuscript fragments, supposedly discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea.
The New York Times

A Ten Commandments Tablet Goes Up for Auction, and Questions Abound

Bids may rise to a million or more, Sotheby’s estimates, though some experts say that fakes and forgeries abound. By Victor Mather Sotheby’s auction house is selling a stone version of the Ten ...
Sun Sentinel

Rare First Temple-era stone seal unearthed in Jerusalem

(JNS) A rare and unique First Temple-era stone seal inscribed with a name in paleo-Hebrew script has been uncovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on August ...