A 3,800-year-old inscription from an Egyptian mine has prompted claims after a recent re-evaluative study that it could contain the earliest known reference to Moses outside of the Bible.
The inscription was originally discovered in the early 1900s by the renowned archaeologist Sir William Flinders Petrie at Serabitel-Khadim, a turquoise mine in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. It is written in Proto-Sinaitic, one of the earliest alphabetic scripts, used by Semitic-speaking labourers during the reign of Pharaoh Amenemhat III (circa 1800 BC).
