Later, out of curiosity, some teenagers took out the crock in the cave and accidentally found a pile of ancient scrolls with many words written on them, which quickly attracted the attention of archaeologists.
Archaeologists named these scrolls with important research value according to geographical location and other information? Dead Sea Scrolls? . And with the deepening of research, they also found the Dead Sea scrolls with different materials, which marked the changes of human writing materials in a certain period.
Most importantly, the contents recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest Bible manuscripts, mainly in Hebrew, but there are also a few other languages, which provides an accurate basis for human beings to study the Old Testament Bible.
On this basis, the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls once became the focus of archaeologists. Because from the manuscripts and fragments found by people, we can also find some documents that do not belong to the Bible, which reflected people's ideological and cultural activities at that time to some extent.
During the long exploration, archaeologists have made many special discoveries. For example, the longest Dead Sea Scrolls may be more than 8 meters long, and it is still well preserved, bearing the crystallization of people's wisdom at that time.
Therefore, many famous museums try to collect fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls, which has also spawned some counterfeiting industries. According to the description of archaeologists, these counterfeiters are often based on information such as pictures on the Internet? Dead Sea Scrolls? So it's hard to fool professionals.
Until recently, the Bible Museum in Washington, D.C. had a small collection of Dead Sea scrolls. Because of their superb imitation skills, many archaeologists have not found any defects. Finally, it was determined in the in-depth study. These expensive Dead Sea scrolls are carefully crafted fakes!
This time, the Washington Bible Museum suffered huge losses. Only through physical identification, more than half of the Dead Sea scrolls were identified as fakes. At present, scientists have summed up three methods to identify the authenticity of the Dead Sea scrolls, including judging by materials, ink marks, sedimentary layers and other information. In the future, such a thing won't happen again.