Posts tagged Antiquities
Ancient Stone Tablet Inscribed With Ten Commandments Sells For $5 Million At Auction

An inscribed marble slab featuring the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The stone — written in archaic Samaritan Hebrew script — is the oldest known text of the Decalogue of its kind and estimated to have been carved sometime between the period spanning 300 and 800 C.E.

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An Ancient Manuscript Up For Sale Gives A Glimpse Into The History Of Christianity

(ANALYSIS) An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts.

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