The Copper Scroll, currently on display at the Archaeological Museum in Amman, Jordan. To the left the Scroll Jar; in the background the Framed Replica of the Copper Scroll; in the foreground the original Copper Scroll cut into fragments; in the upper right a Photograph of the rolled Copper Scroll.
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The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1952, in Cave No. 3 near Qumran, in today Israel´s West Bank occupied territories. The scroll, which was in fact two rolls of copper, was found in the first explored cave. It was the last of 15 scrolls discovered there and was cataloged as 3Q15.

This scroll differs significantly from the others found at the site. Whereas the other scrolls are written on papyrus, this scroll is written on copper. The scroll´s corroded metal were impossible to unrolled by conventional means, so in 1955, it was sent to the College of Technology at Manchester, England, to be cut into 23 individual strips were its hidden carved text was exposed for the first time in two thousand years.

Unlike the other Dead Sea scrolls, 3Q15 is not a literary work. Many think this is an inventory and a guide to fabulous caches, a list of locations at which numerous gold and silver objects, presumably the treasure of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, are buried or hidden.

Some believed the Copper Scroll might be linked to the Second Temple while a few maintain that the Copper Scroll describes holy treasures from Solomon’s Temple like the Vestments of Aaron (the High Priest), the Jeweled Breast Plate of Judgment and the legendary Ark of the Covenant.

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The Copper Scroll as it was found.

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The Copper Scroll was transported to Manchester University in England where it was sawn apart.

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After the Copper Scroll was cut open at Manchester University, the plates were eventually returned to the museum in Amman, Jordan.
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