List of artifacts significant to the Bible  

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The following is a list of artifacts, objects created or modified by human culture, that are significant to the historicity of the Bible.

Controversial

• Acheiropoieta (see Shroud of Turin, Image of Edessa, and the Veil of Veronica)
• Ivory pomegranate
• James Ossuary
• Jehoash Inscription – controversial black stone tablet in Phoenician regarding King Jehoash's repair work. Suspected to be a forgery, (but see: Book of Kings).
• Sholmit/Temech seal
• Sudarium of Oviedo
• Titulus Crucis
• Tower of Siloam – ruins possibly mentioned in the Gospel of Luke.

Artifacts described but unknown to modern scholarship

• The Ark of the Covenant
• Ephod
• Noah's Ark – Searches for Noah's Ark
• Solomonic column – (see Boaz and Jachin)

Forgery

• Stone Seal of Manasseh – Stone seal of Manasseh, King of Judah c.687–642 BC. Reportedly offered to a private collector for one million dollars.

Significant museums

• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
• Hecht Museum
• Oriental Institute, Chicago

See also

• Archaeology of Israel
• Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem
• Assyro-Babylonian religion
• The Bible and history
• Biblical archaeology (excavations and artifacts)
• Chronology of the Bible
• Cities of the Ancient Near East
• Hittite sites – Hittites – History of the Hittites
• Library of Ashurbanipal
• List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources
• List of burial places of Biblical figures
• List of Egyptian papyri by date
• List of megalithic sites
• Model of Jerusalem in the Late 2nd Temple Period
• Near Eastern archaeology
• Nag Hammadi library – early Christian gnostic papyri.
• Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri – collection of Old and New Testament papyri, Apocryphal works and works of Philo
• Relics attributed to Jesus
• Syro-Palestinian archaeology