All the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Washington Museum turned out to be fakes

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All 16 fragments of the so-called Dead Sea scrolls stored at the Bible Museum in Washington turned out to be fake. This was stated on the museum website. The results of the study are given in the final report.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest manuscripts of the III-I centuries BC, found at different times in the vicinity of the Dead Sea in Israel - in the caves of the Judean Desert and in Masad. Some of them are in good condition, some are represented only in small fragments. Scrolls contain the oldest known texts of the Old Testament. The vast majority of these oldest religious manuscripts are exhibited in Jerusalem, but a number of fragments in different ways ended up in other museums around the world and private collections.

In particular, the Bible Museum in Washington in October 2017 acquired fragments of scrolls of Dead Sea manuscripts taken from the National Museum of Iraq. Doubts about the authenticity of these fragments, the existence of which until 2002 was not known, appeared among museum workers almost immediately.

At the end of 2018, the Bible Museum organized an examination, which showed that 5 out of 16 fragments are a clever fake. These fragments were removed from the exposition, and experts were involved in the examination of the remaining fragments of the scrolls.

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