One of the final documents to be decoded from the records of the biblical-era desert sect has been revealed as a chart of their feast daysOne of the last remaining Dead Sea scrolls has been deciphered by researchers at the University of Haifa,with the ancient fragment revealing that its author made a number of mistakes that had to be corrected by another scribe.
First discovered in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea, the scrolls date back two millennia, and from the third century BC to the first century AD. A mix of total scrolls and fragments,the collection, which numbers around 900 manuscripts, and includes texts that were later included in the Bible as well as secular writing,with the majority restored and translated over the decades.
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Source: guardian.co.uk