Experts dismiss Netanyahu’s claim over Siloam Inscription
Israel
ISTANBUL Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed calls for the 2,800-year-old Siloam Inscription, but Turkish historians and legal experts dismiss the demand, stressing the artifact was lawfully transferred to Istanbul and offers no basis for claims over Jerusalem. Carved in ancient Hebrew, the inscription was discovered during the reign of the Ottomans in 1880 in a water tunnel in Jerusalem dating to King Hezekiah’s reign. It was sent shortly after to Istanbul’s Imperial Museum,
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