The Dead Sea Scrolls are religious manuscripts that were written from the third century B.C.E. to the first century C.E. They were discovered in the 1940s and ’50s in caves along the shore of the Dead ...

More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ancient papyrus scroll onto cardboard to preserve it. But the scroll, a history of Plato's Academy, also had writing on the back. Now scholars ...