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https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/08/world/new-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered/Published by: CNN NEWS on 9 Feb 2017
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First discovery of a Dead Sea cave in over 60 years; "Operation Scroll" is a yearslong effort to survey Qumran cliffs Archaeologists think the new cave was looted around the 1950s Excavations on the storied Judean cliffside revealed a new Dead Sea Scrolls cave, full of scroll storage jars andother antiquities, the first such discovery in over 60 years.
The discovery upends a decades-old theory in the archaeological community that Dead Sea Scrolls were only found in certain caves at the Qumran cliffs, which are managed by Israel in the West Bank.
“Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea Scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave,” said Dr. Oren Gutfeld, one of the project’s lead archaeologists.
Pottery shards, broken scroll storage jars and their lids – even neolithic flint tools and arrowheads – littered the cave’s entrance. Farther in, there appeared to be a cave-in.
After a bit of work with a small pickax [...]
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What is Dead Sea Scrolls?Dead Sea Scrolls (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts. They were found in the Qumran Caves in the West Bank near the Dead Sea. Many thousands of written fragments have been discovered in the Dead Sea area. They represent the remnants of larger manuscripts damaged by natural causes or through human interference, with the vast majority only holding small scraps of text. However, a small number of well-preserved, almost intact manuscripts have survived - fewer than a dozen among those from the Qumran Caves.
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