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The Romans Tell That Their Conquest of the Nabateans Was Peaceful, but Is That a Tall Tale of the Victor? Or Did They Erase the Memory of a Fiasco in Arabia?
Daring ‘rescue’ mission results in Dead Sea Scroll finds, other rare discoveries Biblical texts found during a multi-year Israeli expedition make headlines, but archaeologists are buzzing over an intact Stone-Age basket. ByKristin Romey Email The first Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in more than a half-century, and what is possibly the world’s oldest intact basket, were among the discoveries made during a multi-year effort to thwart looting in remote caves across the Judean Desert, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week. In many instances, archaeologists have had...