Show ANCIENT ISRAEL USED INK writings of bible times 6 on n potsherds Pots herds have been found A in samaria Sa marla that the ancient israelites had a cheap and easy method of sending bending written messages which was in fairly common use Is now an established fact said george A Retsu cr assistant professor of egyptology at harvard who for f or tho the last fourteen years has been conducting excavations e cavat lono in egypt ani and palestine professor reissnor just returned on oil tho th campania wo we were excavating in samaria Sa marla ono capital of the northern kingdom of israel in 1908 when we came upon the palace of the israelite kings last summer wo we found on the floor of one ol of the chambers of tho the palace a gumbei of potsherds pots herds and on alese shards were written messages they related to tithes or taxes paid to the king and were written in an ink made of pure carbon or lampblack the these se perhaps are the chri earliest lest of israelite work contemporaneous with uie the bible they were written in the reign of king ahab new york evening post |