The Dead Sea Scrolls
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In early 1947, a teenage Bedouin Herder was looking for a lost goat from his flock when he came across a cave near the Dead Sea. |
| 0:08.0 | Randomly, he threw a stone into the cave and was surprised not to hear the sound of the stone hitting a cave wall, but rather the breaking of pottery. |
| 0:15.7 | He found a collection of clay jars, some of which were sealed containing scrolls wrapped in linen. |
| 0:21.4 | This accidental discovery began one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century. |
| 0:27.0 | Learn more about the Dead Sea Scrolls, how they were found, and what they contain, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The story of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is one of the greatest in the history of archaeology, and one of the things that makes the story so great is that it starts with a couple of young goat herders. |
| 1:00.0 | The story begins with three members of the Palestinian Tahameria tribe, Muhammad Etib, his cousin Juma |
| 1:06.4 | Muhammad, and their friend Khalil Musa. They were tending their goat in an area known as |
| 1:11.1 | Kumrran, just northwest and overlooking the Dead Sea sometime in |
| 1:15.1 | late 1946 or early 1947. The details of the story differ slightly depending on which of the |
| 1:21.1 | men tells it. One of Muhammad's goats went missing, |
| 1:24.0 | so he went to look for it when he came across the cave located on the side of the hill. |
| 1:28.0 | The cave was actually first identified by his cousin. |
| 1:32.0 | Thinking that his goat might have gone into the cave and not being able to see inside, he threw a stone in it. |
| 1:38.0 | What he heard was not what he was expecting. |
| 1:41.0 | Instead of the rock hitting a wall or even hitting the ground, he heard the sounds of clay pots breaking. |
| 1:47.0 | Curious about what he found, Muhammad entered the cave and discovered several ancient clay jars containing scrolls. |
| 1:53.9 | Not recognizing their significance, he took seven of the scrolls back to his camp, |
| 1:58.0 | showed them to his family, and stored them in a sack. |
| 2:01.2 | The scrolls were mostly made of parchment and papyrus and were wrapped in linen cloth. |
| 2:06.2 | The boys hung the scrolls in a bag attached to a tentpole, occasionally showing them to other |
| 2:10.3 | people. |
| 2:11.3 | Eventually it was suggested that the boys take the scrolls to an antique |
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