Published: 19 March 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Dead Sea scroll discovery brings tantalising prospect of more yet to be found (Times of Israel)
With another 20 promising caves to be excavated — and 25% more of the Judean Desert still to be surveyed — stunning finds in Cave of Horror unlikely to be the last
2,000-year-old biblical texts found in Israel, 1st since Dead Sea Scrolls (Jerusalem Post)
6,000-year-old child skeleton also found in Judean Desert cave.
Behind the discovery: how a Dead Sea scroll was found three times (Haaretz)
Israeli archaeologists and looters are playing a game of cat and mouse in the Judean Desert around Dead Sea Scrolls; how a serendipitous bathroom break changed history
Dead Sea Scrolls unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in desert cave (Al-Monitor)
The Israeli project also discovered the remains of a mummified child and what's believed to be the world's oldest basket.
Photo: Part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets scroll, written in Greek (Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority)
