OKAY, THE BIG NEWS is that a second inscription has been found on Absalom's Tomb in the Kidron valley. (Unfortunately, my hotel-room TV system doesn't even show you URLs, let alone let you copy them so you can link to something. Grrr. So no links in Atlanta posts: well have to try a lateral approach instead.) Regular readers will recall that Absalom's Tomb (so-called, much later than Absalom actually) has a Byzantine-era inscription referring to Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist. (Try entering the search term "Absalom" into my search engine, down and to the right, to access the relevant posts in the archive).

The new inscription refers to Simeon, who according to Luke blessed the baby Jesus in the Temple. The inscription is actually part of the text of Luke 2:25. The article appears in dozens of news sites, but the best coverage I found was on the CNN site, which includes an image of drawings of both inscriptions. Enter the article title "Biblical clue found on ancient shrine" either into Google News or the CNN website itself and this should get you the article.

Please excuse typos. I'm trying to catch them but, as I said, conditions are primitive.