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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Bible-Era Mystery Vessel Found -- Code Stumps Experts


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Apparently a mixture of two languages, the inscription shown above—rendered in sharp cuts alongside shallow scratches—appears on a fragment of a biblical-era ritual cup found in Jerusalem. The text might be a coded message, according to the archaeologists who found the stone vessel in summer 2009.

Photograph courtesy S. Pfann/UHL