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A six-line Paleo-Hebrew inscription carved into the rock wall near the southern exit of the 533-meter subterranean conduit diverting water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam .

A carved marble lintel from the western triumphal gate of Thessalonica honoring the city's civic magistrates, confirming the historical accuracy of Luke 's unique terminology.

A complete limestone warning slab that was affixed to the balustrade (Soreg) separating the Court of the Gentiles from the sanctified inner courts of Herod's Temple Mount.

A large ashlar stone thrown down from the southwest parapet of the Temple Mount during the Roman destruction of 70 AD, bearing a Hebrew inscription demarcating the priest's station for blowing the silver trumpets.

A six-sided fired clay prism recording eight military campaigns of Sennacherib, containing the official Assyrian state perspective on the siege of Judah and Jerusalem in 701 BC.

A massive rock relief carved 100 meters up a limestone cliff detailing King Darius the Great's victory over the rebel Gaumata and nine rival claimants, written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian cuneiform.

Two miniature rolled silver amulets (KH1 and KH2) discovered in an unlooted burial repository beneath St. Andrew's Church in Jerusalem , unrolled in 1980 to reveal microscopic Paleo-Hebrew text.

Epigraphic stone inscriptions naming Lucius or Quintus Sergius Paullus as proconsul (anthypatos) of Cyprus during the reign of Claudius, verifying Luke 's administrative accuracy in Acts 13 .

A 2.2-meter rounded limestone stele containing an annalistic account of the western campaigns of Shalmaneser III, culminating in the titanic Battle of Qarqar against a twelve-king anti-Assyrian coalition.

A 3.18-meter black granite commemorative stela of Pharaoh Merneptah detailing military campaigns in Libya and Canaan , concluding with a poetic victory song that lists conquered peoples including Ashkelon , Gezer , Yanoam, and Israel .

Nine limestone fragments of an imperial letter from Emperor Claudius to the city of Delphi, citing recommendations made by 'Lucius Junius Gallio, my friend and proconsul of Achaia '.

A massive, trapezoidal stone-stepped pool fed by the Siloam Tunnel, measuring over 60 meters wide with three sets of five stone stairs separated by landings, used by thousands of Jewish pilgrims for ritual purification before ascending the Stepped Pilgrimage Street to the Temple.

A large paved limestone plaza north of the Corinthian theater containing a deep Latin inscription inlaid with metal letters, commemorating an aedile named Erastus who paved the plaza at his own expense.