Archaeologist Says He Found Oldest Hebrew Writing

A teenage volunteer discovered a 3,000-year-old pottery shard bearing five lines of faded characters in July in the ruins of an ancient town south of Jerusalem.

Yossi Garfinkel, the Israeli archaeologist leading the excavation, says the relic is strong evidence that the ancient Israelites were literate and could chronicle events centuries before the Bible was written. That suggests that some Bible accounts were based on written records as well as oral traditions, lending credence to arguments that Biblical history is more than myth.

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