A fragment of pottery no bigger than a coin has revealed something Jerusalem has never seen before. The 2.5-centimeter shard bears Akkadian cuneiform script—an Assyrian inscription from roughly 2,700 years ago, marking the first discovery of its kind within the ancient city. The Israel Antiquities Authority and the City of David Foundation pulled the fragment
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