Dead Sea Scrolls

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Because they were deliberately hidden in a series of caves that were notorious for being hard to get at.  We are still finding remains/ruins of ancient Rome, Parthia and the like, many of them of an age similar to the scrolls.

It is a truism that lost things tend to stay that way until someone finds them.

Boru

Fake news on a par with the Shroud of Turin.

The Shroud of Turin isn't 'fake news'.  It's a pious forgery.  The DSS, however, are authentic.

Boru