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Multispectral imaging reveals biblical-period inscription unnoticed for half a century

  • Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Anat Mendel-Geberovich, Arie Shaus, Barak Sober

    * E-mail: shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); anat.mendel@mail.huji.ac.il (AMG); ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); baraksov@post.tau.ac.il (BS)

    Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Anat Mendel-Geberovich ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Anat Mendel-Geberovich, Arie Shaus, Barak Sober

    * E-mail: shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); anat.mendel@mail.huji.ac.il (AMG); ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); baraksov@post.tau.ac.il (BS)

    Affiliation Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Arie Shaus ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Anat Mendel-Geberovich, Arie Shaus, Barak Sober

    * E-mail: shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); anat.mendel@mail.huji.ac.il (AMG); ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); baraksov@post.tau.ac.il (BS)

    Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Barak Sober ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Anat Mendel-Geberovich, Arie Shaus, Barak Sober

    * E-mail: shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); anat.mendel@mail.huji.ac.il (AMG); ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); baraksov@post.tau.ac.il (BS)

    Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Michael Cordonsky,

    Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • David Levin,

    Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Murray Moinester,

    Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Benjamin Sass,

    Affiliation Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Eli Turkel,

    Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Eli Piasetzky ,

    ¶‡ These authors co-directed the research team on this work.

    Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Israel Finkelstein

    ¶‡ These authors co-directed the research team on this work.

    Affiliation Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Multispectral imaging reveals biblical-period inscription unnoticed for half a century

  • Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, 
  • Anat Mendel-Geberovich, 
  • Arie Shaus, 
  • Barak Sober, 
  • Michael Cordonsky, 
  • David Levin, 
  • Murray Moinester, 
  • Benjamin Sass, 
  • Eli Turkel, 
  • Eli Piasetzky
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  • Published: June 14, 2017
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178400
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