Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Ayala Zilberstein, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, holding the rare sealing. (photo credit: ...

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More than a century after the National Museum of Denmark began to accumulate a vast collection of inscribed clay tablets from ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a 2,700-year-old pottery fragment inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform, offering what experts describe as the first direct evidence of royal Assyrian ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...