Prophet Ezekiel's Tomb and its Plates

The tomb of Prophet Ezekiel at the Euphrates river in ancient Babylon, modern Iraq, had 66 12" square marble plates. They later became known as the Ezekiel plates. Sixty-six square marbles covered the 2,600-year-old tomb. Etched behind the marble tiles was the entire book of Ezekiel. The Yad Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem displays them.

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Each marble or black basalt tile is about 12 inches. Each tile contains raised lettering in an ancient Hebrew script with no spaces between the letters. The etched side of the tiles was deliberately hidden from public view by plastering it to the wall. The ancient lettering on the tiles was discovered a hundred years ago when a visitor to the tomb noticed a tile had fallen into the burial chamber.