Dead Sea Scroll collection found to be fakes in US museum - BBC News

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A visitor at the Bible Museum's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit - where all the fragments have been found to be fake A collection of supposedly valuable Dead Sea Scroll fragments on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC has been found to be fake. After six months of analysis, experts

released a 200-page report detailing how the fragments were forged - likely made from old shoe leather.

"Each exhibits characteristics that suggest they are deliberate forgeries," the analysts said in a statement.

The scrolls are a set of ancient manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible.

The first of the scrolls were found in caves in Qumran on the western shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. They were reportedly first discovered by a young Bedouin shepherd searching for lost sheep. Their discovery is considered to be among the most significant archaeological finds in history.

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