A DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION is coming to Charlotte, North Carolina, in February:

Charlotte's Discovery Place Presents The Dead Sea Scrolls

POSTED: 3:34 pm EDT October 14, 2005 (WSOCtv.com, NC )
UPDATED: 6:57 pm EDT October 14, 2005

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at Charlotte’s Discovery Place will feature two scrolls never seen outside of Israel.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are considered one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th century. They include the earliest written texts of the Bible and are nearly 2,300 years old.

Charlotte’s exhibit will include 10 original scrolls and three replicas. It will be at Discovery Place Feb. 17-May 29, 2006.

The scrolls coming to Charlotte that have never left Israel are transcripts of Numbers and Isaiah. ...