The Archeology Magazine has listed an inscribed piece of Persian pottery as one of the most exciting discoveries of the year 2009.

The potsherd, which bears a black Persian inscription belonging to the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, was found during excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem (Al-Quds).

Read more in Archaeology Magazine, Volume 63 Number 1, January/February 2010

"Thou hast broken my jug of wine, O Lord;
Thou hast shut upon me the door of happiness, O Lord;
thou hast spilled my pure wine upon the earth;
may I perish! but thou art strange, O lord"
(Heron Allen, quatrain 141, 1898)