King’s 3,000-Year-Old Clay Tablet Found by Jerusalem Excavators
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Israeli archaeologists have discovered part of a 3,000-year-old clay tablet covered with cuneiform script that they say is the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem.
The thumb-sized fragment, which is described as an archived copy of an Accadian-language letter that Canaanite King Abdi-Heba wrote to the king of Egypt, was placed on display today at the Davidson Center in Jerusalem’s Old City. It was found in excavations of a site from the First Temple period led by Hebrew University archaeologist Eilat Mazar.