Wherever the tablet was originally situated was likely to have been destroyed by either the Roman invasions of 400-600 CE or as a result of the Crusades in the late 11th century, Sotheby’s explained. In a short video clip about the sale, the auction ...

The oldest stone tablet depicting the Ten Commandments will be auctioned again, more than a hundred years after it was first discovered.

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, from 1,500 years ago, could fetch $2 million at a Sotheby's auction in December.

Sotheby's will sell the oldest inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments in a single-lot sale in December. The 115-pound, two-foot tall marble tablet is approximately 1,500 years old and inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script.