History is full of hidden treasures.

Pirates are said to have buried them.

The Knights Templar are said to have stolen them, and virtually every small town on the

planet has some local tradition.

But today we're going to look at one that is both among the very largest and the very

oldest, and it comes from a cave in the Holy Land, left deserted for 2,000 years.

The treasures of the Copper Scroll are today unskeptoid.

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The treasures of the Copper Scroll.

For 10 years beginning in 1946, archaeologists carefully removed hundreds and then thousands

of papyrus scrolls from the cum-ron caves in the Judean desert on the shores of the

Dead Sea.

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