Scripture, set in stone
The Artifact Room
33 finds that touch the biblical record — steles, cylinders, scrolls, and seals, oldest first. 8 can be turned in your hands in 3D.
c. 2400 BC
Ebla Tablets
Tell Mardikh, Syria
c. 2100 BC
Epic of Gilgamesh Flood Tablet
Nineveh, Iraq
◇ 3D
c. 1750 BC
Code of Hammurabi
Susa, Iran (originally Babylon)
c. 1350 BC
Amarna Letters
Amarna, Egypt
c. 1208 BC
Merneptah Stele
Thebes, Egypt
◇ 3D
c. 841 BC
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
Nimrud, Iraq
c. 840 BC
Tel Dan Stele
Tel Dan, Israel
c. 840 BC
Moabite Stone (Mesha Stele)
Dhiban, Jordan
c. 701 BC
Hezekiah's Tunnel Inscription
Jerusalem, Israel
◇ 3D
c. 701 BC
Sennacherib's Prism (Taylor Prism)
Nineveh, Iraq
S
c. 700 BC
Seal of Isaiah
Ophel, Jerusalem, Israel
c. 700 BC
Siloam Inscription
Jerusalem, Israel
◇ 3D
c. 600 BC
Ketef Hinnom Scrolls
Jerusalem, Israel
c. 588 BC
Lachish Letters
Lachish, Israel
c. 586 BC
Babylonian Chronicles
Babylon, Iraq
◇ 3D
c. 539 BC
Cyrus Cylinder
Babylon, Iraq
◇ 3D
c. 539 BC
Nabonidus Chronicle
Babylon, Iraq
◇ 3D
c. 250 BC
Dead Sea Scrolls
Qumran, Israel
◇ 3D
c. 196 BC
Rosetta Stone
Rosetta, Egypt
B
c. 100 BC
Book of Giants (4Q530)
Qumran, Cave 4, Israel
c. 50 BC
Galilee Boat (Jesus Boat)
Sea of Galilee, Israel
c. 8 BC
Pool of Siloam
Jerusalem, Israel
c. AD 1
House of Peter at Capernaum
Capernaum, Israel
c. AD 26
Pilate Stone
Caesarea Maritima, Israel
Y
c. AD 30
Yehohanan Ossuary (Crucified Man)
Giv'at ha-Mivtar, Jerusalem
c. AD 30
Caiaphas Ossuary
Jerusalem, Israel
c. AD 30
Nazareth Inscription
Nazareth, Israel
c. AD 62
James Ossuary
Jerusalem, Israel
c. AD 200
Derinkuyu Underground City
Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey
c. AD 200
Alexamenos Graffito
Palatine Hill, Rome
c. AD 200
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
c. AD 230
Megiddo Mosaic
Tel Megiddo (Armageddon), Israel
c. AD 560
Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba, Jordan