Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limestone cliffs, hiding their sacred writings in inaccessible caves. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy crawled into one such cave, found the first of these writings: the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Since then, Israeli archaeologists have watched in alarm as Bedouins haphazardly ransacked the caves for more fragments of parchment and papyrus, often sneaking across the Jordan border to rifle Israeli caves. Last week Israeli Archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni was about to start an all-out search of the remaining Israeli caves on a scholarly and scientific basis, organized with the full support of the Israeli government...