Salt saved ancient scrolls from destruction
Oct 03, 2019
2 minutes
Words by Brandon Specktor
© Alamy
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a marvel. Buried for roughly 2,000 years under piles of debris and bat guano in a chain of caves in the Judean Desert, the collection of nearly 1,000 fragmented manuscripts includes biblical texts,
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