Balaam on the Wall
In 1967 an inscription was found on a wall, that was actually on the ground because of an earthquake, in Deir Allah, Jordan. The language of the inscription was a dialect of Aramaic and it mentioned the seer Balaam. Here is the text of the inscriptions (from here).
[1] Scroll of [Ba]laam [son of Beo]r, the man seeing the gods; behold, the gods came to him at night, and [spoke to] him [2] according to these words, and they said to [Balaa]m son of Beor thus: “The last flame has appeared; a fire for judgment has appeared.”
[3] And Balaam arose in the morning, days, [...] [ ], and cou[ld not eat], and he wept [4] abundantly. And his people came up to him and they [said] to Balaam son of Beor: “Why are you fasting and why are you weeping?”
And he [5] said to them: “Sit! I’ll show you what the Sh[addayin] are [. . . . . . . . . . . . .], and come, consider the doings of the gods.” [6] The gods have gathered together, and the Shaddayin have held an assembly, and they have said to Sh[ama]sh: ‘Sew up, close the sky with your cloud! [Let] darkness be there, and not bright[7]ness, shadow and not radiance; For you’ll strike terror [with the cl]oud of darkness, and do not make noise ever but [instead??] the passer, b- [8] -at, eagle, and peli[can], vultures, ostrich, st[ork], young of falcons, owl, chicks of heron, dove, bird-of-prey, [9] pigeon and sparrow. [every bird of the s]kies … [on earth?] below where the stick led the ewes, hares have eaten [10] [tog]ether [fr]eely….’”
(Photo by Ardon Bar Hama and from here.)
You can imagine how important a find this was. Both the content of the text itself, and the language of the text, have been of great interest to scholars. Not surprisingly, it is used by many to prove the veracity of the Torah. See this article from Aish HaTorah. Some discussion of the inscription can be found here, here, and here. See here and here for discussion of other tablets found at Deir Alla and the difficulty in deciphering their content.