A TIL post circulating across social platforms this week has reintroduced millions of people to one of archaeology’s most tantalizing anomalies: a scroll discovered in 1952 that reads less like religious scripture and more like a treasure map written by someone who really did not want to forget where they buried everything. The document in question, formally designated 3Q15 and known as the Copper Scroll, was found in Cave 3 at Qumran and is unlike anything else recovered from the Dead Sea region , in material, in content, and in the questions it refuses to answer.The "TIL post" is in the "Today I Learned" subreddit on Reddit, posted yesterday (16 April). You can read it here. It became something of a Reddit hit, with more than 10K upvotes in less than 24 hours.[...]
This brief Startup Forture article is quite good. It describes the scroll and its contents, discusses why no one has yet found the treasure, and prudently advises investors not take the story as a "market signal."
For many PaleoJudaica posts on the Copper Scroll, start here (cf. here) and follow the links.
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