(JNS) A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as well as ...

A lead "curse tablet" written in ancient Hebrew more than 3,000 years ago may actually be a fishing weight with no discernible writing, new research suggests. The postage stamp-size lead piece, known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists estimate the "curse tablet," made from a folded lead sheet and inscribed with proto-alphabetic characters, may be ...

On a site in modern-day Israel, academics believe they’ve found the oldest Hebrew text ever discovered, with an apparent link to a scene described in the Old Testament. A team of scholars affiliated ...

“These claims are quite dramatic and require close inspection,” wrote the doubters covering some 21 pages in the Israel Exploration Journal under the title “The so-called Mount Ebal curse tablet: A ...

A big argument is brewing in science. Is a small square of lead a ‘curse tablet’ calling on God to curse his enemies? Or is it an old fishing weight? That’s the debate currently raging over the famous ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the discovery by Stripling's team could be proof of the true time period of the biblical exodus. It has been corrected to read that the ...

A Katy archaeologist who recently announced the discovery of an ancient Hebrew curse tablet that could reshape scholars’ timeline of the writing of the Bible is out with new details about his find, ...