Holy Land wall fragment
Black stone wall fragment with three lines Aramaic script, and a carved border. The Aramaic language was the international trade language of the ancient Middle East, spoken from the Mediterranean coast to the borders of India. Its script, derived from Phoenician, became popular and was adopted by many people with or without any previous writing system. Aramaic flowered into myriads of different variants, which became the script of many nations in the Middle East. Modern Hebrew and Arabic script were evolved from this language.