Oldest known stone tablet inscribed with Ten Commandments to be auctioned ...Middle East

NEW YORK (AP) — The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D., will be sold in New York this month, Sotheby’s auction house said. The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script will be auctioned on Dec. 18. The tablet was unearthed during railroad excavations along the southern coast of Israel in 1913 and was at first not recognized as a historically significant artifact. It was used as a paving stone at a local home until 1943 when it was sold to a scholar who grasped its significance, Sotheby’s said. The text inscribed on the slab follows the Biblical verses familiar to Christian and Jewish tra

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