AN OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD for Qumran scholars? This article on Grover Krantz, an anthropologist who donated his and his dogs' skeletons to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, has this intriguing aside:

Working at the Berkeley museum, Krantz broke his big toe in a particularly memorable manner: He dropped the Dead Sea Scrolls on it.

The Dead Sea Scrolls aren't heavy enough to cause damage if dropped on something. Presumably they were in a heavy box or cabinet? This was in the early 1960s. What were Dead Sea Scrolls doing in Berkeley then? A museum exhibition? Doesn't seem likely. I wonder if there isn't some garbling in this story.