THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS are now an advertising point for a Beaufort, SC, engineering company:

Local company helps protect ancient scrolls
BY JASON RYAN, The Beaufort Gazette
Published Sunday, June 25, 2006

BEAUFORT -- The Dead Sea Scrolls have been hardy enough to last more than 2,000 years, much of that time spent stashed in clay jars within a secluded cave in Qumran, Israel.

Beaufort Engineering Services has helped keep that survival streak going the past two years, creating climate-control systems for two museums that exhibited the prized ancient texts.

The company's most recent work was modifying heating and air systems for the Discovery Place in Charlotte, which hosted 10 of the scrolls and other artifacts from February to May.

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