Sotheby’s is auctioning off a “vastly important historic artifact,” the oldest-known carving of the Ten Commandments dating back approximately 1,500 years. Photo courtesy of Sotheby's Dec. 9 (UPI) ...

The world's oldest stone tablet bearing the Ten Commandments is headed to auction. On Dec. 18, Sotheby's will be auctioning off the so-called Yavne Tablet, a 114-pound marble slab engraved with the ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D. and attributed by some experts to ancient Samaritans, is pictured on display at Sotheby’s in New York ...

A 1,500-year-old Byzantine tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments will be auctioned on December 18, with an estimated value of $1-2 million. The 115-pound tablet was discovered in 1913 in Israel, ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday. Sotheby’s said the 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab was acquired by an ...

Bids may rise to a million or more, Sotheby’s estimates, though some experts say that fakes and forgeries abound. By Victor Mather Sotheby’s auction house is selling a stone version of the Ten ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D., will be sold in New York this month, Sotheby's auction house said. The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble ...

The strong price underscores the ongoing tension between market demand for rare antiquities and persistent legal, ethical, and academic debates about how such objects are vetted. The oldest known ...

A tablet of the Ten Commandments that was inscribed more than 1,000 years ago will be auctioned off by Sotheby's this week. The tablet is the oldest known in existence, believed to date somewhere ...