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The Tel Dan Stele
In July 1993, an archaeologist named Gila Cook, working on the long running excavation of Tel Dan in northern Israel, brushed the dirt from a black basalt fragment that had been reused…
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The Siloam Inscription and Hezekiah’s Tunnel
The Siloam Inscription is, in the modern inventory of Hebrew inscriptions, one of the most consequential single inscriptions from the Israelite period of the first millennium BC. The inscription was found, in…
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The Mesha Stele and the Moabite Stone
The Mesha Stele, conventionally known as the Moabite Stone, is the largest inscribed stone monument from the ancient Levant to survive substantially intact from the first millennium BC, and it is the…