Artifacts on display. .This year two Canadian museums will present a major exhibition of rare artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. from biblical times, including portions of three of the first Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. , the earliest known Bible manuscripts. The exhibit, narrating one thousand years of history in the Holy Land, will be called Archaeology archaeology (ärkēŏl`əjē) [Gr.,=study of beginnings], a branch of anthropology that seeks to document and explain continuity and change and similarities and differences among human cultures. and the Bible: From King David to the Dead Sea Scrolls and will be presented from June 17-Nov. 2, 2003 at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History at Pointe-a-Calliere. Under the title Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea Scrolls, it will be at the Canadian Museum of Civilization The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) is Canada’s national museum of human history and the most-visited museum in the country.[1] It is located in Gatineau, Quebec, directly across the Ottawa River from Canada’s Parliament Buildings. in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, from Dec. 5, 2003-April 12, 2004. |
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