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New informations about the Dead Sea Scrolls

 The famous Dead Sea Scrolls continue to generate riddles, decades after their discovery. A recent study concluded that at least one different technique was used to obtain one of them than the rest, an unknown technique, unheard of to this day.

 

The parchment that attracted the attention of researchers, one of the most important in the collection, is one with an age of almost 2.000 years, which has been remarkably well preserved, despite the conditions in which it was kept and despite its size. of the largest. Found by the Bedouins in 1956, north of the Dead Sea, it was sold to an antique dealer.

He did not keep it in the best conditions, but still wrapped it in cellophane and stored it in a shoe box, hidden under the floor, according to Science Alert.

The "Temple Parchment", as he is known, has survived, but is currently the thinnest of the parchments (a collection of about 900 pieces). It is only one tenth of a millimeter thick. However, it was preserved, and the material withstood its entire length of 8 meters.

The parchments were made differently, over time, depending on the period and the region. However, all methods are based on a few features. It starts from the skin of an animal, washed, dried and processed until it has no hair and soft tissue at all.

The parchment of the Temple is special from the others because the text is written on the side of the skin that was in contact with the animal. Then, the text seems to have been written on an inorganic layer, applied to the skin, which is not the case with the other parchments.


This protective layer contained, among other things, sodium and calcium and thanks to it the parchment survived even in improper conditions.

What is certain is that the parchment has the clearest and whitest writing surface of all that has been studied. Many of them have dark traces, which would have existed from the beginning.

 

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