Newly Found 2,600-Year-Old Seal Could Be From a Royal Official in King Josiah’s Time

Arkeonews ^ | 6 August 2025 | Leman Altuntaş

[fidelis]

The find gains further significance as it was uncovered just days before Tisha B’Av — the Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples. Symbolically, the seal seems to echo across the centuries, a fragment of faith and history reclaimed from the ashes of loss.

[Revel]

I don’t see what good an official seal is if you just leave it lying around where anyone can find it.

[crusty old prospector]

In a relative sense, he was a good king of Judah.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Very nice.

Most people aren’t aware that there have been many inscriptions found that make reference to Biblical figures, including Jehu, Omri, Hezekiah, Jaazaniah, Nebo-Sarsekim, Eliakim, Jeroboam, Uzziah, Balaam son of Beor, and many others.

The Bible isn’t just a story book. It’s reliable history.

[BenLurkin]

One of the good kings, if memory serves me right.

[HYPOCRACY]

A clay seal

[nopardons]

Yes, for the most part the Bible really is a history book and the more archeologists find, the more gets proven to be factual.

[mairdie]

>>Clay seal

Clapping enthusiastically, and not even for fish.

[dfwgator]

[jjotto]

Also:

‘For the Redemption of Zion’: Rare coin from the Great Revolt discovered in Jerusalem

Bronze coin minted by Jews in Jerusalem during final year before Second Temple’s destruction in 70 CE discovered during excavations in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden - Davidson Center...

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412539

[GingisK]

Really cool! Were these pressed into wax to close correspondence and to make them official?

[Rio]

Turning a little bit grey.

[dynachrome]

He used it on porpoise.

[crosdaddy]

I sea what you did there.

[fidelis]

I don’t see what good an official seal is if you just leave it lying around where anyone can find it.

Probably just slipped between the sofa cushions. My official seals do that all the time.

[fidelis]

"One of the good kings, if memory serves me right."
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"In a relative sense, he was a good king of Judah."

That's correct, along with Hezekiah. Some other kings of Judah started well, like Uzziah, but then went bad. Most of them were weak or just plain rotten. The northern kingdom of Israel was worse. ALL of their kings were rotter's.

[9YearLurker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKLp5K7lw8&ab_channel=NEWSCENTERMaine

[fidelis]

"The Bible isn’t just a story book. It’s reliable history."

[fidelis]

"‘For the Redemption of Zion’: Rare coin from the Great Revolt discovered in Jerusalem"

[fidelis]

Really cool! Were these pressed into wax to close correspondence and to make them official?

In this time period they were impressed into wet clay, but wax came later.