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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/science/28scro.html
Scientists Confirm Discovery of Earliest Biblical Verse
(New York Times) John Noble Wilford - Researchers at the University of Southern California using new photographic and computer imaging techniques have confirmed that two tiny strips of silver found 1979 in a Jerusalem tomb and bearing the inscribed words of a biblical verse from Numbers 6:24-26 date from the First Temple period, just before the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts dates some 400 years before the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.