APPENDIX 2
SIGNIFICANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
Listed by the Date of when it was discovered
Name/Location |
Year Found & Excavator/Discoverer |
Date of Writing, Script & Language |
Rosetta Stone, near village of Rosetta, Egypt |
1799 by Captain Boussard, significance determined in 1822 |
Approx 200 B.C.; Hieroglyphic, Demotic, Greek |
Sheskonk Inscription, Karnak (Thebes), temple of Amun |
1825, then 1896 when Flinders Petrie recognized its significance |
Approx 920 B.C.; Egyptian Hieroglyphics |
Taylor Prism, Nineveh |
1830 by J.E. Taylor |
850 B.C.; Akkadian |
Behistun Inscription; rock face over village of Behistun, Zagros Mountains, Iran |
1835 by Henry Rawlinson |
Darius the Great 521-485 B.C.; Akkadian, Elamite, Old Persian |
Sargon’s Palace; Khorsabad near Nineveh |
1843-1844 by Paul Emile Botta |
722-705 B.C.; Akkadian |
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser; Calah (Ancient Himrud) |
1846 Austin Henry Layard |
850 B.C.; Akkadian |
Sennacherib’s Palace, Nineveh |
1849-1851 by Austin Henry Layard |
Approx 700 B.C. |
Seven Enuma Elish Tablets, Nineveh (Library of Ashurbanipal) |
1850; Studied by Geo. Smith 1872-73 |
7th century B.C. with other fragments as early as 2300 B.C.; Akkadian |
Gilgamesh Epic (12 Tablets), Nineveh (Library of Ashurbanipal) |
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City of Susa, in steppe country east of Tigris |
1851 Wiliam K Loftus |
6th Century B.C. |
Moabit Stone, Dibon in Moab |
1868 by Rev. K. Klein |
840 B.C.; Moabite |
Cyrus Cylinder, Babylon |
1879-1882, Rassam |
539/7 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Siloam Inscription, Jerusalem |
1880 young boy; translated by A.H. Sayce |
701 B.C.; Classical Hebrew |
Nabonidus Chronicle |
1882 by T. G. Pinches |
555-539 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Amarna Tablets , Tell el Amarna |
1887 Egyptian woman; Flinders Petrie excavated |
14th century B.C.; Akkadian |
Elephantine Papyri, Elephantine Island, Aswan, Egypt |
1893; C.E. Wilbour (student) purchased from Arab women |
5th century B.C.; Aramaic |
Merenptah Selah, Thebes |
1896 by Flinders Petrie |
1220 B.C.; Hieroglyphics |
Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Oxyrhynchus, Egypt |
1898-1914 by Robert Koldewey |
600 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Babylon, Palaces of Nebuchadnezzar and Naboloplassar |
1898-1914 by Robert Koldewey |
600 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Code of Hammurabi, Susa |
1901 by M.J. deMorgan |
1755 B.C., Akkadian |
Beni Hasan Tomb Paintings, Beni Hasan, Nile River |
1902-1904 & 07 by John Garstang |
1892 B.C.; Hieroglyphics |
Sumerian King List, Kish |
1906 fragments found; published by Langton in 1923 |
2256-2000 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Hittite Documents, Boghazkoy (ancient Hattusah) |
1906-07 & 1911-12 by Hugo Winckler |
16th Century B.C.; Hittite Cuneiform |
Gezer Calendar, Gezer, Israel |
1908 by R. A. MacAlister |
10th century B.C.; Hebrew |
Ur; Iraq |
1922-34 by C. Leonard Woolley |
2500 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Nuzi Tablets |
1925-41, Edward Chiera |
15th Century B.C.; Hurrian |
Ras Shamra Tablets; Ugarit |
1929-37; C.F.A. Schaeffer |
15th Century B.C., Akkadian |
Persepolis, Iran |
1931; Ernst Herfeld |
Approx 500 B.C.; Persian, Elamite |
Khorsabad King List; Sargon’s Palace |
1932-33; published by Edward Chiera |
Early 3rd Millennium to about 600 B.C.; Cuneiform |
Mari Letters; Tel-Hariri |
1933; Andre Parrot |
18th century B.C.; Akkadian |
Lachish Ostraca, Israel |
1933-1938; James Starkey |
588 B.C., Cursive Phoenician |
Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Israel |
1947 Bedouin boy, then Sukenik, Trever & Albright |
2nd Century B.C. & later; Hebrew & Aramaic |
Babylonian Chronicle, Babylon |
1956, Donald Wiseman |
626-594 B.C.; Akkadian |
Megiddo; Israel |
1960, 65-67; Yigael Yadin |
2nd Millennium B.C. |
Pontius Pilate Inscription, Caesarea Theatre |
1961; A. Frova |
26-26 A.D.; Greek |
Ebla Tablets (15,000 fragments), Syria |
1974; Paolo Matthie |
2300 B.C.; NW Semitic Cuneiform |