(FOXNEWS) – An American-Israeli researcher translated 3,800-year-
old inscriptions that may predate the Bible by centuries.

A researcher may have uncovered the oldest written references
to Moses, dating back 3,800 years and hidden in an Egyptian
desert.

The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient
turquoise mining site in the Sinai Desert where Semitic laborers
once worked during the Middle Bronze Age.

The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions date back between 1800 and 1600
B.C. 

They were etched centuries before the earliest parts of the Bible
were written between the 10th and 7th centuries B.C.

The two inscriptions, among many at the site, were first discovered
in the early 1900s, but they’re now being reanalyzed by an American-Israeli epigraphist named Michael S. Bar-Ron.

The expert, who’s also a graduate student at Ariel University, spoke
with Fox News Digital about the discovery.