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 ...

(CNN) — The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate. The stone, which dates back around 1 ...

The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab, engraved with the Ten Commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, is set to be auctioned on December 18. Discovered in 1913 during railroad excavations along Israel's ...

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 ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. (OSV News photo/Jason Reed, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...