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Dead Sea Scrolls (Great Isaiah Scroll)

The Great Isaiah Scroll is one of a collection of ancient Jewish religious texts discovered at Qumran in the Dead Sea re...

Ancient Jewish Hebrew Scroll

9.8 Brilliant

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Behistun Inscription

The Behistun Inscription is a monumental relief carving in Iran dating to the Achaemenid Empire (c. 520 BC). It features...

Rock Cut Ancient Persian Achaemenid

9.7 Brilliant

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Oxyrhynchus Papyri

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri represent a vast collection of ancient Greek manuscripts discovered in Egypt. Dating primarily fr...

Ancient Greek Egypt Papyrus

9.7 Brilliant

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Oracle Bone Inscriptions (Shang Dynasty)

Oracle bone inscriptions are fragments of turtle and ox scapula used during the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC) for divi...

Oracle Ancient Chinese Bone

9.6 Brilliant

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Trajan's Column Dedicatory Inscription

The Trajan’s Column dedicatory inscription is a lengthy Latin text carved into the column's reverse face. It recounts Em...

Roman Stone Latin Imperial

9.6 Brilliant

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Amarna Letters

The Amarna Letters are a collection of diplomatic texts inscribed on clay tablets dating from the reign of Akhenaten in...

Ancient Egyptian Diplomatic Clay

9.3 Excellent

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Sinai Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions

The Sinai Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions are ancient stone inscriptions originating in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt around...

Ancient Stone Egypt Proto Sinaitic

9.3 Excellent

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Flood Tablet (Gilgamesh Tablet XI)

This Babylonian clay tablet, dating to approximately 7th century BCE, represents one of the earliest recorded accounts o...

Mythology Ancient Babylonian Clay

9.2 Excellent

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Shi Gu Wen (Stone Drum Inscriptions)

Ten granite drums bearing Chinese seal-script verses, dated to the Zhou Dynasty period c. 4th–3rd century BCE; considere...

Ancient Chinese Poetry Stone

8.8 Great

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Prism of Sennacherib

The Prism of Sennacherib is a 7th-century BC Assyrian clay document notable for describing the military campaigns of Kin...

Ancient Clay Assyrian Cuneiform

8.8 Great

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Enuma Elish Creation Tablet

The Enuma Elish Creation Tablet contains the 12th-century BC Babylonian epic that describes the supremacy of the god Mar...

Ancient Babylonian Clay Cuneiform

8.7 Great

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Ebla Tablets

Some 17,000 cuneiform tablets from ancient Ebla, Syria (c. 2400–2300 BCE), discovered in the 1970s and forming one of th...

Ancient Clay Sumerian Cuneiform

8.7 Great

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Gortyn Code

Greek legal inscription from Gortyn, Crete, c. 450 BCE, comprising twelve columns of text; the most complete surviving a...

Law Ancient Greek Stone

8.5 Great

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Yi Shan Inscription (Qin Shihuang)

Commemorative stone inscription ordered by Qin Shihuang in 219 BCE at Mount Yi, Shandong; one of several stelae celebrat...

Ancient Chinese Stone Imperial

8.5 Great

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Piye Victory Stele

Granite stele c. 727 BCE recording Nubian king Piye's conquest of Egypt; at over 150 lines it is the longest known ancie...

Ancient Egyptian Stone Nubian

8.4 Great

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Ahiram Sarcophagus Inscription

This early Phoenician text on a royal sarcophagus from Byblos, Lebanon, dates to the 10th century BCE and is notable as...

Ancient Stone Funerary Phoenician

8.4 Great

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Atrahasis Epic Tablet

The Atrahasis Epic is an 18th-century BC Akkadian cuneiform tablet notable for containing an early Mesopotamian flood my...

Ancient Babylonian Clay Cuneiform

8.3 Great

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Mari Palace Archive Tablets

Around 20,000 cuneiform tablets from the Mari palace archive, Tell Hariri, Syria (c. 2000–1759 BCE), documenting the dip...

Ancient Clay Akkadian Cuneiform

8.3 Great

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Darius I Persepolis Inscription (DPh)

This Old Persian cuneiform inscription by Darius I at Persepolis in Iran details the construction of his grand palace co...

Ancient Stone Persian Achaemenid

8.2 Great

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Persepolis Foundation Tablets

The Persepolis Foundation Tablets are Achaemenid Elamite texts from 500 BC, notable for documenting administrative detai...

Ancient Gold Persian Achaemenid

8.0 Great