Israeli archaeologists have announced that they have found dozens of new fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with biblical texts written on them, in a desert cave some 2,000 years old, where the Jews are believed to have hidden the scrolls during their revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago.
Israeli archaeologists spent years excavating caves and cliffs in the Judean Desert, surveying some 80 kilometers of cliffs, before finding the artifacts in one cave. The Judean Desert area spans southern Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Archaeologists used Drones, climbing tools and rock-climbing drops to search the cave. They noted that the caves were used by Jews during the failed Bar Kokhba revolt against the Romans in the second century.
A statement from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) noted, “This is the first Time in about 60 years that archaeological excavations have unearthed biblical scrolls.”
The Israel Antiquities Authority noted that the scroll fragments include passages from the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets, written in Greek. The Book of the Twelve Prophets is part of the Hebrew Bible.
The Israel Antiquities Authority said archaeologists also found a group of rare coins, the bones of a 6,000-year-old child, and a basket more than 10,000 years old. The Antiquities Authority described it as the oldest basket in the world.
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