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Ancient inscription on jar found in Israel links kingdoms of Solomon and Sheba



For more than a decade, archaeologists have struggled to decipher an inscription carved into the neck of a broken jar that dates back to King Solomon’s reign in ancient Israel. Now, researchers have finally revealed the mysterious message’s meaning.

Based on the new interpretation, published in January in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology (opens in new tab), the inscription was engraved using Ancient South Arabian script in Sabaean, a common language that was spoken during biblical times on the Arabian Peninsula in the kingdom of Sheba, in what is today Yemen. 



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