Believe it or not, archaeologists continue to excavate the network of caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea that produced the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
Haaretz has an interesting article describing this ongoing work. Below is an excerpt. You can read the entire article here.
“The fact that in 2019 explorations to find scrolls are still ongoing may sound
surprising. Gutfeld thinks otherwise.
“’To many it seems obvious that everything that could be found in the Judean Desert caves has been found, and they are empty. But in the last few seasons we proved that there are findings galore and that these excavations are very important,’ he says.
“’From the first bucket we took out of the cave, we’ve been sifting out pottery fragments. We’ve found vessels and organic material including hundreds of olive pits, dates, seeds and nuts. We’ve found ropes, jars, lids, an intact decorated bronze pot, a candle unique to the Qumran region, linen textiles that were probably used for wrapping scrolls. We found leather straps that were probably used to tie the scrolls…'”
