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Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 49 of the Isaiah Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls; in the Shrine of the Book, D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Centre for Biblical Manuscripts, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
The first Dead Sea Scrolls were accidentally discovered in 1947 by a shepherd boy in a cave at Khirbat Qumrān, located on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. These initial findings, which were almost immediately labeled the Dead Sea Scrolls, represent one of the most significant discoveries in the history of modern archaeology.12