As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...

High on the windswept Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (4.27 km), a stone inscription has sparked a ...

High figure was notched despite questions around the tablet’s authenticity Sotheby’s workers hold one of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday.Sotheby's said the 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab was acquired by an ...

The oldest stone tablet depicting the Ten Commandments will ... the manuscript was heralded as the “earliest and most complete Bible,” drawing its name from its notable collector, David ...

For thirty years, the plaque served as a paving stone at the entrance of a house, with the inscription facing up and exposed to foot traffic. An ancient marble tablet inscribed with an ancient ...

CLARY/AFP via Getty A stone tablet containing the Ten Commandments is going up for auction. The historic artifact, which dates back to the late Roman-Byzantine era, will be auctioned off by ...

The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate. The stone, which dates back around 1,500 ...

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