[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

These stories fascinate me. Thanks for posting! <3

[SJackson]

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Had the Wakf found it, the shard would be in the garbage.

[Red Badger]

The shard is now kept in a university safe while philologists translate it, a task expected to take months. But several words have already been tentatively identified, including ones meaning "judge," "slave" and "king."

The missing words: DO NOT judge your KING or you'll be a SLAVE............

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Finkelstein, who has not visited the dig but attended a presentation of the findings, warned against what he said was a "revival in the belief that what's written in the Bible is accurate like a newspaper." That style of archeology was favored by 19th century European diggers who trolled the Holy Land for physical traces of Biblical stories, their motivation and methods more romantic than scientific.

What harm is there in this kind of motivation? A lot more stuff ends up getting discovered, and the archaeological community as a whole can sort out the significance of the discoveries.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Finkelstein... warned against what he said was a "revival in the belief that what's written in the Bible is accurate like a newspaper."

Considering the state of newspapers he should revise that.

[Fractal Trader]

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[dervish]

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