View of the Dead Sea from a cave at Qumran where some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Photograph by Eric Matson
Archaeologists have rediscovered nine Dead Sea Scrolls in an Israeli storeroom, that had been left unopened and forgotten for 60 years.
The find includes tiny fragments of text that were found inside phylacteries, miniature leather cases that contain verses from the Torah and are bound to the head of observant Jews during weekday morning prayers
The tiny scrolls were collected along with the renowned Dead Sea Scrolls from caves at Qumran overlooking the Dead Sea between 1946 and 1956. However they appear to have been neglected since their discovery, possibly because archaeologists at the time did not believe them to contain any texts.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made up of 981 texts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, mostly on parchment but with some written on papyrus and bronze.[3] The manuscripts have been dated to various ranges between 408 BCE and 318 CE
