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Discoveries may disprove Dead Sea theory


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news icon rRival groups of scholars excavating a dusty plateau overlooking the Dead Sea are arguing over who lived there in biblical times -- ordinary farmers or the Essenes, a monastic sect believed by some to be a link between Judaism and early Christianity.

The Essenes were the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, more than 1,000 ancient texts found a half-century ago in the caves above Qumran, one of the most significant discoveries in the region.

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cool.gif i saw some doco on tv about people who were looking for a lost city in the dead sea. cool.gif
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