Save Not today. The Dead Sea Scrolls were one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. The Copper Scroll is part of the extraordinary cache of 1st Century documents first discovered in caves at Qumran, popularly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.The Copper Scroll, however, is very different from the other documents in the Qumran library. In the 70 years since these ancient documents were found in the Qumran caves, scholars have meticulously assembled thousands of fragments into more than 900 scrolls. Being a "sucker" for books and movies dealing with Egypt and Egyptology, perhaps … What is the dead scroll? Thought not as famous as the book of the dead, its cousin the scroll offered just as much a punch to the living during its time in use for the ancient world. Hebrew scrolls. The fragment, translated into English, reads "he wrote the words of Noah." Sign up to save your library. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity. Dating from ca. The book is an enjoyable read, but the plot disappoints a bit and gets a bit predictable near the end. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Under the right-click options, you may choose to check your progress towards completing the mummy. The Copper Scroll is part of the extraordinary cache of 1st Century documents first discovered in caves at Qumran, popularly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.The Copper Scroll, however, is very different from the other documents in the Qumran library. The Scroll of the Dead The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies. Known as the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century, the Dead Sea scrolls were first discovered in 1947 and the last bits of which having been found up to 1956. 'The Dead Sea Scrolls is an unsurpassingly lucid introduction to a complex subject. Subjects. Wilson unravels the exciting tale of how the scrolls first came into the possession of students in the war-torn Palestine of the late forties, the excavation of the Dead Sea sect's monastery at Qumran, the subsequent debates the scrolls provoked among theologians and scholars, and the light