The world's earliest known stone carving of the Ten Commandments has been sold in an auction for 850,000 US dollar.<br/>The marble slab, which is just over 60 centimeters (24 inch) high, is inscribed in an early Hebrew script called Samaritan. It only includes nine of the original Biblical commandments; the 10th is a local Samaritan rule.<br/><br/>It was sold at a Los Angeles auction house on condition that it will be displayed in a public museum. The carving was discovered in 1913 during the excavation for a railway line near the city of Yavneh, an historical Jewish centre of learning, now in present day Israel.