On June 2, 2020 local time, Jerusalem, the staff of the Dead Sea Scrolls Laboratory looked at the gene sampling fragments at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). A new study shows that ancient animal DNA extracted from the Dead Sea Scrolls may be the key for scientists to solve the Jewish desert debris puzzle. Scientists hope to use this novel method to produce a "genome" of the Dead Sea Scrolls, thus helping scholars decode these mysterious artifacts.

Release time: 2020-06-05 11:35:30 [Editor: Zhai Lu]