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Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel s Jewish World and Archaeology editor.
Archaeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriah Amichai sieving finds at the entrance to the Cave of Horror. (Eitan Klein, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Rappelling to the Cave of the Skulls. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Excavations in Muraba‘at Cave. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Excavations at Qumran. (Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Dozens of youths from pre-military preparatory programs participated in the excavations. (Yaniv Berman, Israel Antiquities Authority)
The discovery of the 10,500-year-old basket by preparatory program students. (Yaniv Berman, Israel Antiquities Authority)
The basket as found in Muraba‘at Cave. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
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A four-year effort by Israeli archaeologists searched 500 caves near the Dead Sea. In addition to ancient parchments and papyri, they found an intricately woven basket more than 10,000 years old.
They also discovered a partially mummified 6,000-year-old skeleton of a child.
March 16, 2021
Archeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriah Amichai sifting through finds at the Cave of Horrors. Photo by Eitan Klein, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have discovered a new fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a cache of ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts uncovered in the Qumran Caves on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.
The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book of the 12 Minor Prophets” scroll, first discovered in 1961. It contains verses from Zechariah 8:16-17 and Nahum 1:5-6. The minor differences in the wording compared to other known manuscripts are important in helping shape our understanding of the evolution of the standardized Hebrew Bible.