1313. HITTITE HIEROGLIPHS, HAMATH, 9TH. C. B.C.

1375. JEWISH ARAMEIC INCANTATIONS WRITTEN ON CERAMIC BOWLS IN BABILONIA DATING FROM CA. 5TH – 6TH. C. A.D. THE TEXT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE PERSON FROM EVIL SPIRITS

1417. DEAD SEA SCROLLS, THE HABAKKUK COMENTARY. AN EARLY TYPE OF JEWISH BIBLICAL COMMENTARY EXPLAINING THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE 7TH. C. B.C. PROPHET

1495. CUNEIFORM TABLET

1514. EARLY ARAMAIC INSCRIPTION FOUND IN DAN, DATING FROM THE 9TH. C. BC. THE EMPHASIZED LINE READS “BEIT DAVID” MEANING “THE HOUSE OF DAVID” (I. KINGS 15:20)

166. THE PRISM OF KING SANNAHERIB ON WHICHIS CONTAINS A RECORD OF HIS PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, AMONGST THEM THE CONQUEST OF JUDEA,

1683. INSCRIPTION FROM THE AYUBIC TOWER IN JERUSALEM COMMEMORATING IT’S ERECTION BY SULTAN EL-MA’AZEM IN YEAR 1212

1978. OSTRACA FOUND IN SHIKMONA (SOUTH OF HAIFA) INSCRIBED WITH PART OF THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET, 4TH C. B.C.

214. WINE JAR WITH HEBREW INSCRIPTION FROM JUDEA, 8-7TH. C. BC. THE INSCRIPTION IS IN PALEO-HEBREW SCRIPT AND READS: ‘BELONGING TO YAHZEYAHU, WINE OF KHL’ (KHL COULD BE THE NAME OF A CERTAIN WINE)

228. GEZER CALENDAR, AN INSCRIPTION IN ANCIENT HEBREW SCRIPT, ENGRAVED ON A LIMESTONE. POSSIBLY THE OLDEST HEBREW INSCRIPTION EVER FOUND

2296. MAP OF THE WORLD WITH BABYLON AT IT’S CENTER, SURROUNDED BY WATER. CLAY TABLET FROM THE TIMES OF KING SARAGON OF BABYLON, C. 7 – 6TH. C. BC

2346. BULAE (CLAY SEAL) INSCRIBED IN ANCIENT HEBREW; ‘TO HEZEKIAH (SON OF) AHAZ KING (OF) JUDEA’ DATING FROM THE 7TH. C. B.C.

2399. NEO-HITTITE SCRIPT – CARCHEMISH, 880 B.C.

252. INSCRIPTION READING: ‘ TO THE HOUSE OF TRUMPETING…’ FOUND NEAR THE SOUTH/WESTERN CORNER OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT. IT IS PRESUMED THAT THIS INSCRIPTION WAS LOCATED ON THE TOWER WHERE THE PRIEST WAS STANDING WHEN BLOWING THE SHOFAR (TRUMPET) TO ANNOUNCE THE ONSET OF SABBATH

2529. PROF. YIGAEL YADIN THE GREAT RESEARCHER OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WORKING ON ONE OF THE SCROLLS

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258. IVORY POMEGRANATE, POSSIBLY FROM AN ORNAMENT IN SOLOMON’S TEMPLE. THE INSCRIPTION READS: ‘ BELONGING TO…HOLY TO THE PRIEST’

258. IVORY POMEGRANATE, POSSIBLY FROM AN ORNAMENT IN SOLOMON’S TEMPLE. THE INSCRIPTION READS: ‘ BELONGING TO…HOLY TO THE PRIEST’

267. CAST OF SEAL INSCRIBED: ‘SHEMA, SERVANT OF JEROBAM’, FOUND IN MEGIDDO, POSSIBLY JEROBAM II. KING OF ISRAEL, 9TH. C.BC. ‘

269.STORAGE JAR WITH DRAWINGS OF ANIMALS INSCRIBED IN PROTO-CNAANITE SCRIPT READING: ‘MATAN SHAI…’ 13TH. C. BC. FOUND IN LACHISH

2714. THE ‘MENERPTAH STELE’, KNOWN AS THE ‘ISRAEL STELE’. THE HIEROGLIPHIC TEXT DESCRIBES THE VICTORIES OF PHARAOH MENERPHTAN (1211-1202 BC) OVER LYBIANS AND VARIOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN ASIA. AMONGST THESE IS MENTIONED THE NAME ‘ISRAEL’ FOR THE FIRST TIME.

2717. GOSPEL OF THOMAS FROM THE NAG HAMADI CODEX II. – A NON CANONICAL GOSPEL, WRITTEN BY A WITNESS TO THE EARLYEST CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS

278. CYLINDER OF CYRUS, DATING FROM YEAR 536 B.C. WHICH TELLS OF THE DECREE RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF EZRA PERMITING THE JEWS TRANSFERED TO BABYLON, TO RETURN TO JUDAH AND REBUILD THE TEMPLE.

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2974. CAESAREA – ROMAN INSCRIPTION ON THE AQUADUCT, STATING THAT THE AQUADUCT WAS BUILT BY THE ROMAN TENTH LEGION FRETERNIS’ IN THE TIME OF EMPEROR HADRIANUS ‘

3474. DRAWING FROM KUNTILLET AJRUD,AN ISRAELITE OUTPOST IN SOUTHERN NEGEV DATING FROM THE 8TH. C. B.C. THE GRAFITI FOUND ON A CERAMIC FRAGMENT REPRESENTS, ACCORDING TO SOME ARCHEOLOGISTS, YAHVEH (ON THE LEFT) AND ‘HIS CONSORT ASHERAH’ (THE SEATED FEMALE FIGURE) THIS THEORY IS BASED ON THE CONTENTS OF THE INSCRIPTION (UPPER LEFT) READING: ‘I BLESS […]

3486. FRAGMENT OF THE COPPER SCROLL FROM QUMRAN, CAVE NO. 3. THE SCROLL DESCRIBED IN 12 COLUMNS IN HEBREW THE HIDING PLACES OF THE TREASURY OF QUMRAN

3702. ALABASTER VESSEL WITH HEBREW INSCRIPTION READING: ‘LE’KAMESH HA’AM HAHRAMTA’, MEANING ‘SACRIFICE TO KAMESH’ A MOABITE GOD

3740. CLAY TABLET INSCRIBED WITH AN ARCHAIC PICTOGRAPHIC SCRIPT

285. SILVER AMULET CONTAINING THE DIVINE NAME – YAHVEH, DATING FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 6TH. C. BC. FOUND IN JERUSALEM. THE INSCRIPTION WRITTEN IN ANCIENT HEBREW CONTAINS THE TEXT OF A PRAYER, SO-CALLED ‘PRIESTLY BENEDICTION’ (NUM. 6:24-26) THE AMULET IS THE EARLYEST OBJECT WITH AN INSCRIPTION CONTAINING THE DIVINE NAME EVER FOUND