What Are the Earliest Mentions of Israel Outside The Bible?
<p>On16 December 1896, Egyptologist <strong>Flinders Petrie</strong> stumbled upon an unimpressive temple in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. The crumbling sandstone sphinxes and the looted remains saddened him.</p>
<p>Petrie was about to move on.</p>
<p>But then he discovered a ten-foot-long, five-foot-wide black granite stele. The inscription caught his eye. He asked his team to cut the stones blocking the stele, a decision that would change history.</p>
<p>It wasn’t any ordinary inscription.</p>
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