Skeletons could provide clues to who wrote or protected the Dead Sea Scrolls
Few women or children have been found at Qumran burial site, suggesting similarities to Byzantine monastery cemeteries

SCROLL CALL Newly excavated skeletons at a roughly 2,000-year-old West Bank site support a theory that a community of celibate men lived there at the time the Dead Sea Scrolls were placed in nearby caves. These men may have written or protected the scrolls.
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