Antiques dealer Moses Willhelm Shapira released the scroll to the world in 1883
The 15 fragments claim to contain words from the biblical book of Deuteronomy
He sold them to the British Museum for £1 million but they were branded as fake
The museum sold the fragments at auction for £25 and they disappeared forever
A new study into the linguistics and structure of the words based on drawings and writings from the 18th century suggest it may actually be ancient text