Tag: Sotheby’s New York

A 1,500-year-old stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold at Sotheby’s New York for $5.04 million.   It has set a new record for biblical antiquities.   Carved in Paleo-Hebrew script during the late Roman-Byzantine era, the tablet is the oldest surviving inscription of the commandments.    Discovered in 1913 near Lydda, Israel, du...