According to the inscription, five top-ranking officials had been ordered to seek medicinal herbs near Mount Kunlun, a ...

A stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments that was carved anywhere between 300 to 800 A.D. will go on the block at Sotheby’s next week and is expected to fetch up to $2 million ...

In total, the researchers identified 39 unique symbols on the “book-sized tablet”, several of which are repeated to give a total of 60 characters. “The script, some of whose 39 characters ...

Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone ... tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of ...

A stone tablet carrying engravings of the Ten Commandments sold for US$5 million at auction on Wednesday, Sotheby’s announced. The high figure was notched despite questions around the tablet’s ...

Future archaeological digs might yet connect the Bashplemi Lake tablet with an ancient attempt to preserve a moment of the past in stone. "Archaeological excavations carried out at this ...

EXPERTS have managed to decipher an ancient 3,500 year-old stone tablet - and the message on it is something we still do today. The amazing artefact was discovered after works were carried out in ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten ... artifact to an Israeli institution, it added. The stone is a remarkable artifact from the ancient world — but it lay forgotten for hundreds ...

Sotheby’s said the tablet was used as a paving stone at a local home until 1943 when it was sold to a scholar who grasped its significance. “A tangible link to ancient beliefs that have ...