MONTREAL (AFP) - Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th Century, went on display in a Montreal museum Tuesday, the first time they have been out of Israel.

Stumbled upon in 1947 in a cave near Khirbat Qumran on the Left Bank of the Dead Sea by a bedouin searching for an errant goat, the scrolls are considered a direct link to the origins of the Bible.

Fragments of them are on public display at Montreal's Pointe-à-Callieres Archeological Museum until November, when they will be moved to the Museum of Civilizations in Ottawa.

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