British Museum scholars have announced the deciphering of a cuneiform table which mentions someone previously only known from the Bible. Independent textual confirmation of Biblical characters is, understandably, quite rare*, so the find is being treated with quite a bit of fanfare.

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* It was a tiny little country constantly getting run over by its neighbors. It got cleaned out completely at least twice. Were it not for the spectacularly unlikely sequence of events that lead to an itinerant peasant's movement taking over the world, it's possible we'd be as familiar with Jews as we are with Sikhs, and for the same reasons.