A small shard of clay may have the oldest bit of written text ever discovered. I may come from a royal court in Jerusalem 4 centuries before King David.

The fragment includes a partial text including the words “you,” “them,” and “later.”

It leads one to wonder what was the original message said. Was it lovers note? Was it secret message sent by a spy? Was it the first Science Fiction story? Was it a shopping list?

via Tiny shard bears oldest script found in Jerusalem – Yahoo! News.