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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the destruction-of-human-history dept.

A 12th "Dead Sea Scroll Cave" has been discovered, but no actual scrolls have been found:

In the late 1940s, teenagers explored a cave hidden in the flanks of jagged hills of Wadi Qumran in the Judean Desert. Inside, they discovered fragments of the original Dead Sea Scrolls—ancient collections of text that contain the oldest-known biblical manuscripts. Since then, archaeologists have found 11 Qumran caves that they have extensively excavated in search of the precious scrolls that date back more than 2,000 years ago. Now, a team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Liberty University in Virginia have discovered what they believe to be a 12th cave on the cliffs west of Qumran.

The Hebrew University press release writes that in the first wide-scale survey in the area since 1993, the team unearthed storage jars and lids from the Second Temple period (dating from 530 BC to 70 CE) in the cave that some scholars [are] already calling number 12. They also found a pair of iron pickaxe heads that they identified as being from the 1950s, suggesting the cave had been looted.


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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday February 10 2017, @06:01AM

    by edIII (791) on Friday February 10 2017, @06:01AM (#465410)

    It's not looting if it ends up in a museum...

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