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Fragments of jars that contained stolen scrolls, found in a cave in cliffs near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in Israel.
Scholars have deciphered a Dead Sea Scroll written in a Hebrew code, finding that it contains part of a 364-day calendar of holy days.
For the generality of the articles sold yesterday prices regarded as extremely good were realized. One of the most interesting objects offered was an ancient Hebrew Scroll of the Law.
New Dead Sea Scroll Find May Help Detect Forgeries Looters plundered the cave decades ago. But archaeologists are thrilled by what they left behind. Here’s why.
In 1954 Israel bought the seventh scroll (and three others) from Jerusalem’s Syrian Metropolitan Mar Athanasius Samuel, and experts at Hebrew University tackled the problem of unrolling it.
Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a new “Dead Sea Scroll cave,” the first such discovery in more than 60 years, according to a university press release ...
Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping, and a leather tying string were found at the site. The Dead Sea scrolls date from as early as the 4th Century BC.
Ancient Hebrew En-Gedi scroll unwrapped and read after 1,400 years – here's what it said The scroll had been destroyed in a huge fire inside the En-Gedi Holy Ark in 600 AD.
The treatment not only stabilized the leather and smoothed out the writing surface, but it also mimicked a signature, glue-like feature of the real Dead Sea Scrolls.
The researchers found that the two halves of the scroll were written in similar but distinct handwriting styles. Researchers examined minute variations in the Hebrew characters aleph and bet.