Advanced digital imaging methods applied by  the Jerusalem Institute for Research and Digital Documentation of Cultural Heritage at the Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem, have aided the Israel Museum Jerusalem in the analysis of the ancient stone inscription discovered in known as the Tel Dan Stele.

The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele containing an Aramaic inscription which dates to the 9th century BCE. It is the earliest known extra-biblical archaeological reference to the house of David. The stele was discovered in 1993 in Tel-Dan by Gila Cook, a member of an archaeological team led by Avraham Biran. Its pieces were used to construct an ancient stone wall that survived into modern times. The stele contains several lines of ancient Hebrew.

Link to the stone’s RTI: https://heritage.hac.ac.il/rti/tel_dan/stele/index.html

Link to the stone’s 3D: https://skfb.ly/pqIsF