Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

A New Generation Takes up the Hunt for Dead Sea Scrolls

(Version anglaise seulement)

In the cliffs high above the Dead Sea archaeologists chip away with pick axes, hoping to repeat one of the most sensational discoveries of the last hundred years - the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls, a collection of manuscripts, some more than 2,000 years old, were first found in 1947 by local Bedouin in the area of Qumran, about 20 km east of Jerusalem. They gave insight into Jewish society and religion before and after the time of Jesus, and spurred a decade of...

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