12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered

[Still Waters]

Researchers have discovered a new cave in Israel that they say once held Dead Sea Scrolls, making it just the 12th such cave of its kind found. The find is thus a milestone, according to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The cave was looted long before the archeologists excavated it, but inside they found telltale signs that scrolls had been there: broken storage jars and lids on its edges and in a tunnel in the back.

"This exciting excavation is the closest we’ve come to discovering new Dead Sea scrolls in 60 years. Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave,” Oren Gutfeld, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Archaeology and director of the excavation, said in a statement.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/02/08/12th-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered-in-israel.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38916687

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

All I could think of while reading that was this from Red Dwarf:

 

Edited February 9, 2017 by Sir Wearer of Hats

[docyabut2]

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cool :)wish there could have been more documents

 

[brlesq1]

So I wonder in whose collection the scrolls have ended up...

[taniwha]

2 hours ago, brlesq1 said:

So I wonder in whose collection the scrolls have ended up...

I would say goats ate them.