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Pottery shards may bear proto-Hebrew

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• Oct. 26: Archaeologist Yossi Garfinkel displays a ceramic shard bearing a Canaanite inscription at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Garfinkel says the ceramic shard containing five lines of faded characters written 3,000 years ago at the time of the Old Testament's King David, was found in the ruins of an ancient fortified town south of Jerusalem and is the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered. Other scholars contend it's not clear whether the inscription was Hebrew or another closely related Canaanite dialect from the time.
• Oct. 26: A closer view of the Canaanite shard, with the letter A, or aleph/alif in Hebrew and Arabic, clearly visible.
• Oct. 26: Archeologist Yossi Garfinkel holds the ceramic shard at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
• Oct. 23: Archeologist Yossi Garfinkel is seen at the excavation site of Hirbet Qeiyafa near the town of Beit Shemesh, south of Jerusalem.
• An aerial view of the the excavation of Hirbet Qeiyafa near the town of Beit Shemesh, south of Jerusalem.
• Oct. 23: An unidentified man is seen at the excavation site of Hirbet Qeiyafa near the town of Beit Shemesh, south of Jerusalem.

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