In a recent Biblical Archaeology Review article,* epigraphy scholar Christopher Rollston asks a seemingly straightforward question: What is the oldest Hebrew inscription? His examination requires him ...
US archaeologists say they have found what could be the immediate precursor to the Hebrew alphabet - dating back from the 10th Century BC. The two rows of letters were found on a stone in Israel near ...
Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a ...
ON the return to England of the members of the Marston-Wellcome Archaeological Expedition to Lachish at the close of excavations for the season 1937–38, further discoveries of examples of early Hebrew ...