Indo-European Called Rome In 63 B.C. Discovery of More Dead Sea Scrolls.

Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered about 80 new pieces of ancient writings known as Dead Sea Scrolls in a desert cave south of Jerusalem.

The new discovery adds to a larger group of Dead Sea Scrolls - a collection of Jewish writings first found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s.

Some of the scrolls date to over two thousand years ago. They include the earliest known copies of biblical writings and documents explaining the beliefs of a little understood Jewish group.

The roughly 80 new pieces were found in a place known as the “Cave of Horror.” Rome

The writings are believed to have been part of a scroll put in the cave during the Bar Kochba Revolt. This was an armed Jewish revolt against Rome during the time of Emperor Hadrian in the years between 132 and 136.

Joe Uziel is head of the Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls group. He said “some of those differences are important.” Uziel added, “Every little piece of information that we can add, we can understand a little bit better” how the biblical writing came into its traditional Hebrew form.

In 1961, Israeli archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni led a dig in the “Cave of Horror.” His team found nine pieces of writing belonging to a scroll written in Greek.

For the past four years, Israeli archeologists have launched a major campaign to examine caves in the Judean Desert. The aim is to find ancient objects before people damage the area, destroying important information in search of objects to be sold illegally.

The authority said since the beginning of the operation in 2017, there have been almost no antiquities stolen in the Judean Desert.

I’m John Russell.

 John Russell adapted it for Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.