Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sotheby’s is auctioning off a “vastly important historic artifact,” the oldest-known carving of the Ten Commandments dating back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty One of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone tablet of ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D. and attributed by some experts to ancient Samaritans, is pictured on display at Sotheby’s in New York ...

A 1,500-year-old Byzantine tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments will be auctioned on December 18, with an estimated value of $1-2 million. The 115-pound tablet was discovered in 1913 in Israel, ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday. Sotheby’s said the 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab was acquired by an ...

Sotheby announced on Wednesday that a stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for over $5 million at auction to an anonymous buyer who plans to donate it to Israel. The auction house ...

The strong price underscores the ongoing tension between market demand for rare antiquities and persistent legal, ethical, and academic debates about how such objects are vetted. The oldest known ...

The historic artifact will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s on Wednesday, Dec. 18 Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty A stone tablet containing ...