Salty tales: new mystery for the Dead Sea Scrolls
Cosmos Magazine - Sun 8 Sep 19Chemical analysis reveals surprising details for the longest and whitest of the 2000-year-old texts. Barry Keily reports.
Study of Dead Sea Scroll sheds light on a lost ancient parchment-making technology
Phys.org - Fri 6 Sep 19First discovered in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds looking for a lost sheep, the ancient Hebrew texts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most well-preserved ancient written materials ever ...
Sulfur, Sodium - A Mysterious Salt Combination Preserved The Dead Sea Scrolls For Millennia, Science 2.0 - Sat 7 Sep 19The 'most beautiful and best preserved Dead Sea Scroll' was treated with mysterious salts
Daily Mail - Fri 6 Sep 19To investigate how the Temple Scroll's parchment was made, material scientists led from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped the chemical composition of one small part of the scroll.
Longest Dead Sea Scroll has a salt finish that others lack
FOXNews - Fri 6 Sep 19The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls are continuing to provide researchers with suprising insights.
Secret to This Dead Sea Scroll’s Incredible Preservation — And Inevitable Destruction — Could Be Salt
Livescience - Fri 6 Sep 19The Temple Scroll is the best preserved of all 900 Dead Sea Scrolls, and researchers just got one step closer to figuring out its secret.
The books of today have nothing on the scrolls of 2,300 years ago
Fastcompany Tech - Mon 9 Sep 19New discoveries about the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal how they lasted for so long. For starters? A unique combination of salts and chemicals, developed more than two millennia ago. In 1947, shepherds ...
Dead Sea Scrolls: How to make a book last for millennia
ScienceDaily - Mon 9 Sep 19Researchers have determined the unique composition of a surface layer on the Temple Scroll, one of the best-preserved of the more than 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, to uncover the ancient ...
How to make a book last for millennia
Eurekalert - Fri 6 Sep 19(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers at MIT and elsewhere determine the unique composition of a surface layer on the Temple Scroll, one of the best-preserved of the more than ...