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Dead Sea Scroll On Display In Jerusalem After 40 Years In Dark

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Bible’s Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment. The museum decided to put the scroll back [...]

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