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Photograph of tombstone with Hebrew text, engraved columns, and decorative objects on top.

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Tombstone of Torah Scholar

1855

Silver comb and nail pick.

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Burial Comb and Nail Pick of the Bischitz Burial Society

1855–1856

Clay tablet in several sections inscribed with Akkadian text.

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The Flood Story in the Atrahasis Epic

Middle Bronze Age

Relief with hieroglyphs above standing figures while others sit and perform circumcisions.

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Circumcision in an Egyptian Relief

Old Kingdom (Egypt), 23rd–22nd Century BCE

Mural of people carrying bricks, measuring blocks, and pouring buckets.

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Brickmaking by Prisoners

New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE

Stone cylinder inscribed with cuneiform.

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Cyrus Cylinder

539 BCE

Drawing of relief of people working in the fields with hieroglyphic writing on top and around figures.

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Harvesting and Threshing in Egyptian Painting, from the Tomb of Pa-heri (New Kingdom)

New Kingdom (Egypt), 14th Century BCE

Stone cube inscribed with cuneiform.

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Lot (puru), Assyria

Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE

Basalt stela inscribed with Akkadian writing and figure on throne next to standing figure. Inset shows close-up of Akkadian writing.

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Stela with the Laws of Hammurabi

Bronze Age, 18th Century BCE

Clay tablet with cuneiform inscription.

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Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria

Iron Age IIC, 7th Century BCE

Tablet with inscribed Hebrew writing and several cracks, and small disconnected fragment.

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Legal Complaint on Ostracon

Late 7th Century BCE

Square inscribed with Aramaic writing.

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Uzziah’s Reinterment Inscription

Roman Period, 1st Century BCE or CE