Find mysterious Dead Sea manuscripts "lost in history" in the United States!

Find mysterious Dead Sea manuscripts "lost in history"

in the United States!

Researchers have rediscovered the Dead Sea manuscript thought to have been lost in history more than 6,000 miles away in the United States.

• The old part, estimated to be about 2,700 years old

• is one of only three papyrus that survived the first structure period.

• But it was effectively forgotten and could have remained

• so had it not been for the death of Ada Yardeni

• a researcher in ancient Hebrew writing, in 2018.

When Professor Shmuel Ahitov was asked to complete her incomplete book, she spotted the piece in a photograph and launched a campaign to track down the missing manuscript.

Papyrus was eventually found in Montana, where the author explained that his mother had received it as a gift during her visit to Jerusalem in 1965. She hung the piece, framed, on her wall.

At the invitation to the Holy Land

the current unnamed owner visited the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) laboratory, where the Dead Sea manuscripts had been preserved, and agreed that he must remain there for future preservation.

"Towards the end of the First Temple period, writing was widespread," said Joe Ozil, director of IAA's Judea Desert Manuscripts Unit. However, the first structure period documents written on organic materials - such as papyrus - barely survived. While we have thousands of roll parts dating back to the second structure period, we have only three documents, including this newly found document, from the first structure period.

The piece itself was found to be vague because it consisted of four ripped lines.

It is believed that the full letter was a set of instructions for the recipient.

1. To ascertain the authenticity of the document
2. it was radiologically dated at the Weissmann Institute in Rehovot
3. revealing its old lineage.

Experts believe that slavery is likely taken from the same caves as the Judean desert, where other Dead Sea manuscripts have been preserved for thousands of years due to a dry and stable climate.

The piece was later transported by Joseph Saad

• curator of the Rockefeller Museum, and Halil Iskander Kando

• a well-known antiquities dealer who sold thousands of parts of 

• the Dead Sea manuscripts.

• Now the document will be retained for future generations.