... scrolls raising the interest level of the student in the archaeological find. The first discovery The first discovery of the scrolls was made in the spring of 1947 when young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a lost goat in the cliffs along the Dead Sea in Judean Desert, went into a cave that had never been visited before by anyone and found jars filled ... with ancient scrolls. These jars discovered by the Bedouin had seven scrolls, which they sold to a cobbler and antiquities dealer called Kando. Kando did not keep them with himself, as they were useless for him so he sold three ... ...

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