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Article: Dead Sea Scrolls on display for the first time outside Israel.(Society)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- July 4, 2003
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Byline: STEPHANIE PERTUISET
MONTREAL (AFP) Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th Century, went on display in a Montreal museum Tuesday, the first time they have been out of Israel.
Stumbled upon in 1947 in a cave near Khirbat Qumran on the Left Bank of the Dead Sea by a bedouin searching for an errant goat, the scrolls are considered a direct link to the origins of the Bible.
Fragments of them are on public display at Montreals Pointe-@-Callieres Archeological Musuem until November, when they will be moved to the Museum of Civilizations in Ottawa.
The Dead Sea Scrolls ...