This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

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General view of the Long Room in the Trinity College Library, the largest library in Ireland on April 19, 2016 in Dublin. American inventor Henry Ford famously said that history is “more or less bunk.