Ancient Egyptian stone fragment found out of Egypt

An 1.5″ ancient stone fragment with archaic Egyptian signs found at a dig near Lake Kinneret is the first of its kind to be found outside Egypt, archaeologists said.

The carvings on the stone fragment shows an arm and hand grasping a scepter and an early form of the ankh sign (key of life). Tel Aviv University’s Raphael Greenberg estimated the stone fragment dates back to Egypt’s First Dynasty period around 3000 BC.

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