Credits and licenses

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Images

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Image list

The list below covers 21 images across 14 artifacts (14 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, and 7 public-domain or CC0). Daily facts have no separate image-credit fields. Links are included where a source or license URL is present in the data. Images themselves are not loaded on this page. All of these images ship in the app; content changes only through app updates.

• Great Isaiah Scroll

  Today — photo

  “Great Isaiah Scroll.jpg” by Ardon Bar Hama / Israel Museum, Public domain (PD-Art-100), via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Ketef Hinnom silver scrolls

  Today — photo

  “Ketef hinom scrolls.JPG” by Bachrach44, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Siloam Inscription

  Today — photo

  “Siloam inscription.jpg” by oncenawhile, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Then — sketch (tunnel context only)

  “Siloam Tunnel sketch 1884.png” by Charles Warren and Claude Conder, 1884, Public domain (PD-old, PD-US), via Wikimedia Commons. Converted from PNG to JPEG for display.

• Taylor Prism

  Today — photo

  “Taylor Prism-1.jpg” by David Castor, Public domain (PD-self), via Wikimedia Commons. Re-encoded for display; pixel dimensions match the Commons original.

• Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

  Today — photo

  “The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, 9th century BC, from Nimrud, Iraq. The British Museum.jpg” by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Detail — photo (Jehu panel detail)

  “Black Obelisk Yehu in front of Shalmaneser III.jpg” by Steven G. Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display. The Commons file is itself a cropped extract of File:Jehu-on-Obelisk-of-Shalmaneser.jpg.

• Tel Dan Stele

  Today — photo

  “JRSLM 300116 Tel Dan Stele 01.jpg” by Oren Rozen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Then — epigraphic drawing (not a full-stele reconstruction)

  “Tel dan inscription.png” by User:Schreiber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Converted from PNG to JPEG for display.

• Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone)

  Today — photo

  “Mesha Stele Louvre.JPG” by Paterm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Then — scholarly drawing (surviving fragments plus squeeze-based restoration)

  “Mesha Stele drawing.png” by Mark Lidzbarski, 1898, Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-auto-1923), via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display and converted from PNG to JPEG. Public-domain basis: author died 1928; published 1898.

• Cyrus Cylinder

  Today — photo

  “Cyrus Cylinder.jpg”, Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Modifications by مانفی, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Pilate Stone

  Today — photo

  “Dedicatory inscription found reused in the staircase of the theatre of Caesarea, the first and only mention of Pontius Pilates' name ever unearthed, 26-36 AD, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (15655925251).jpg” by Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Pool of Siloam

  Today — photo

  “Pool of Siloam (3734427511).jpg” by Ian Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Then — museum scale model (Holyland Model, speculative)

  “Jerusalem Modell BW 12.JPG” by Berthold Werner, Public domain (PD-self), via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Sea of Galilee Boat

  Today — photo

  “JesusBoat.jpg” by Travellers & Tinkers, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Then — museum reconstruction drawing (photo of display panel)

  “Ginosar-Yigal Allon Museum-10-Boot-Zeichnung-2010-gje.jpg” by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Caiaphas ossuary

  Today — photo

  “Ossuary of the high priest Joseph Caiaphas P1180839.JPG” by deror_avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

• Temple Warning inscription

  Today — photo

  “Jerusalem Temple Warning Inscription.jpg” by oncenawhile, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized for display.

  Then — museum scale model of the Temple Mount setting (speculative)

  “TempleMount HolylandModel.JPG” by Berthold Werner, Public domain (PD-self), via Wikimedia Commons. Re-encoded for display; pixel dimensions match the Commons original.

• Gallio inscription

  Today — photo

  “Delphes Gallion.jpg” by Gérard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Re-encoded for display; pixel dimensions match the Commons original.

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