<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2005/ancient-alphabet-unearthed.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Ancient Alphabet Unearthed</title><excerpt>A 38-pound chunk of limestone with 3,000-year-old scratchings has rocked the world of archaeology. Last summer, former Westmont Professor Ron Tappy and a team of volunteers digging south of Jerusalem unearthed the stone, which appears to show an early, emerging Hebrew alphabet.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2006/11/AlphabetDetail.jpg" alt="Photo by Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg, Courtesy the Zeitah Excavations and Israel Antiquities Authority"/>
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