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February 16, 2017

Even without Scrolls, the Latest Discovery at the Dead Sea Could Help Fight Forgery

Clues in blank parchment.

Last week archaeologists discovered a cave near the Dead Sea that almost certainly once contained ancient scrolls like those found at eleven other caves nearby. They believe looters took the documents in the 1950s, leaving broken jars and blank parchment behind. Yet despite the absence of texts, experts still expect the new discovery to prove helpful, as Michelle Z. Donahue writes:

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