Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

The Metallic Scroll of the Dead Sea In the limestone cliffs overlooking the Dead Sea, in the ruins of the Essene settlement of Qumran , one of the most unique and controversial artifacts of the archaeological history was discovered in 1952. While the other scrolls found in the eleven caves—the famous Dead Sea Scrolls —were written on sheets of sheep skin or papyrus, containing biblical texts and sectarian rules, the artifact found in Cave 3 consisted of two rolled sheets of pure copper . The Copper Scroll ( 3Q15 ) is not a literary or theological text; it is a detailed, dry inventory of sixty-four hiding places containing vast amounts of gold, silver, incense, and priestly garments, hidden across the landscape of Judea. The copper sheeting had oxidized into a brittle, fragile state, preventing it from being unrolled without destroying the text. In 1955, the scroll was carried to the Manchester College of Technology, where the researcher H. Wright Baker used a specially designed s...