The stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, was erected by Mesha, another King of Moab. It describes various conflicts and conquests.

The ancient basalt monument, also known as the "Moabite Stone," bears a Canaanite inscription documenting the victories of King Mesha of Moab. The stele is currently on display in the Louvre, Paris.

The two accounts, however, give opposing victors. In the Mesha Stele narrative, the vengeful Moabite king razes the city and annihilates its inhabitants, only to later repopulate it with other ...

The Mesha Stele was discovered in 1868 in Jordan (about 15 miles east of the Dead Sea). In 1869 one of the local Bedouin tribes smashed the stone slab into many pieces, to protest against the ...

The Mesha Stele, a basalt stone slab discovered in 1868 east of the Dead Sea that has provided historians the largest source of the Moabite language to date - Click the link for more details.

2 Kings 3 and the Mesha Inscription give diametrically opposed accounts of the Moabite War of Independence in the 9th century B.C.E. The Mesha Inscription is relatively matter of fact and evinces a ...