The Mesha Stele, also called the Moabite Stone, is a basalt stone slab that has provided historians and linguists with the largest source of the Moabite language to date. Although discovered in fragments in 1868, researchers have only now been able to verify with a considerable degree of certainty that the stele contains explicit references to King David. It’s just one of many archeological finds proving the Israelites were indigenous to the land.
— The Jerusalem Post
Quote: “In 2015, a team from the West Semitic Research Project of the University of Southern California took new digital photographs of both the restored stele and the paper squeeze. The team used a method called Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), in which numerous digital images are taken of an artifact from different angles and then combined to create a precise, three-dimensional digital rendering of the piece. This method is especially valuable because the digital rendering allows researchers to control the lighting of an inscribed artifact, so that hidden, faint, or worn incisions become visible.”
— The Jerusalem Post | Researchers André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme in Biblical Archeology Review
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Learn more about the Moabites from Britannica.com. ►
Read “Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers” ►
Watch “The Mesha Stele/Moabite Stone” [3:49]. ►
Photo of the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone): World History Encyclopedia
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