Tel Arad

Examples of pottery shards (written in ink on pottery). Photo credit: Michael Kordonsky, Tel Aviv University and the Antiquities Authority

The texts in the Tel Arad citadel were written by 12 different writers

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A world-renowned expert from the Forensic Department of the Israel Police examined the written pottery fragments and identified 12 different manuscripts with varying degrees of certainty * Meaning: Many in the Kingdom of Judah could read and write
The new address from Tel Arad discovered by researchers from Tel Aviv University. Photo credit: Michael Kordonsky, Tel Aviv University.

A new photographic technology has revealed a Hebrew inscription from the days of the First Temple - on pottery that is still considered clean of a letter

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"Ostracones (inscriptions in ink on fragments of pottery) from the Judean citadel in Arad. The inscriptions date to the end of the First Temple, approximately 600 BC. Photos courtesy of Tel Aviv University (photographer: Michael Kordonsky) and the Antiquities Authority.

In Tel Arad, even the common people knew how to read and write at the end of the days of the Kingdom of Judah

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