Egypt
During an excavation in Jerusalem just south of the walls of the old city a clay chip from a 3400 year old clay tablet covered in cuneiform script has shown the importance of that city in the late Bronze age. Researchers from Hebrew University said the chip was found in the debris beneath a 10th century bc tower and was possibly from the royal archives.
The researchers believe it is a royal missive sent by the Canaanite ruler of Jerusalem to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and dates precisely to the same period as the tablets found at Tell elAmarna. The clay chip is the oldest example of writing found in Jerusalem and predates the next example by 600 years.
Image courtesy of Hebrew University
- Book Review: Deir El-balah
Biblical Archaeology Review (Review by Carol A. Redmount) Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus by Trude Dothan Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2008, 168 pp. The critical clue was the yellow sand. But for the grains...
- Rollston’s Reflections On The Fragmentary Ophel Tablet
Rollston Epigraphy (Christopher Rollston) With comments included. Rollston’s Reflections on the Fragmentary Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel: A Critique of the Proposed Historical Context Introduction In IEJ 60 (2010): 4-21 a cuneiform tablet (written...
- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
- Did Hebron Disappear?
aish.com ( Rabbi Leibel Reznick) Cites the "Amarna letters". We do not have to bother speculating whether or not Hebron existed in the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age. There is very conclusive evidence that it did. One of the more famous set of ancient inscriptions...
- The Papyrus Path
The Jerusalem Post (Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg) It is not well known that there were two Jewish temples in ancient Egypt. They do not form part of our traditional history, which concentrates on the going down into Egypt and the coming out of it, as based...
Egypt
Oldest Writing
During an excavation in Jerusalem just south of the walls of the old city a clay chip from a 3400 year old clay tablet covered in cuneiform script has shown the importance of that city in the late Bronze age. Researchers from Hebrew University said the chip was found in the debris beneath a 10th century bc tower and was possibly from the royal archives.
The researchers believe it is a royal missive sent by the Canaanite ruler of Jerusalem to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and dates precisely to the same period as the tablets found at Tell elAmarna. The clay chip is the oldest example of writing found in Jerusalem and predates the next example by 600 years.
Image courtesy of Hebrew University
- Book Review: Deir El-balah
Biblical Archaeology Review (Review by Carol A. Redmount) Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus by Trude Dothan Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2008, 168 pp. The critical clue was the yellow sand. But for the grains...
- Rollston’s Reflections On The Fragmentary Ophel Tablet
Rollston Epigraphy (Christopher Rollston) With comments included. Rollston’s Reflections on the Fragmentary Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel: A Critique of the Proposed Historical Context Introduction In IEJ 60 (2010): 4-21 a cuneiform tablet (written...
- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
- Did Hebron Disappear?
aish.com ( Rabbi Leibel Reznick) Cites the "Amarna letters". We do not have to bother speculating whether or not Hebron existed in the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age. There is very conclusive evidence that it did. One of the more famous set of ancient inscriptions...
- The Papyrus Path
The Jerusalem Post (Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg) It is not well known that there were two Jewish temples in ancient Egypt. They do not form part of our traditional history, which concentrates on the going down into Egypt and the coming out of it, as based...