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Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls up for sale
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are now up for sale. Read more
- May 10, 2013: The ten commandments written on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold them to scholars and institutions is now quietly marketing the leftovers -- fragments the family says it has kept in a Swiss safe deposit box all these years.read moreAP Photo/Dan BaliltyShare
- May 10, 2013: Pnina Shor, head of the Dead Sea Scrolls projects at the Israel Antiquities Authority shows infrared scans of parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. Shor said the trove of fragments is so numerous - at least 10,000 - that staff havent finished counting them all.read moreAP Photo/Dan BaliltyShare
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Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls up for sale
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are now up for sale. Read more
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