Friday, October 28, 2011

NYC DSS exhibit opens today

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK opens today:
Dead Sea Scroll Objects On Display

Analysis by Rossella Lorenzi (Discovery News)
Thu Oct 27, 2011 03:50 PM ET
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A three-ton stone from Jerusalem's Western Wall, hundreds of biblical era artifacts, and a collection of 20 Dead Sea Scrolls will make their debut tomorrow in New York's Discovery Times Square Exposition.

The largest collection of biblical artifacts ever displayed outside Israel, the exhibition "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times," aims to take visitors on a "fascinating archaeological journey through the Holy Land."

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