This is Ketef Hinnom a rocky
null in the heart of Jerusalem.
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It's situated on the south
shoulder of the Hinnom Valley
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opposite of Mt. Zion,
over- looking the walls of the
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old city of Jerusalem and
the famous tower of David in
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Jaffa Gate. The site is
beside the ancient road between
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Bethlehem and Jerusalem. It
was an important road junction
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between the land of the
ancient Hebrew tribes of Judah
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and Benjamin. Thanks to its
location everyone who came to
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Jerusalem and the City
of David had to pass here.
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The location of Ketef Hinnom
high on a hill is beautiful and
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strategic but there's
more to Ketef Hinnom than
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meets the eye. This rocky out-
crop concealed hidden secrets.
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Ketef Hinnom is a place
of treasure, buried treasure,
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treasure that's been
buried here for 2,700 years.
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This is the site of one of
the most exciting and amazing
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archeological-discoveries in
modern times involving a hoard
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of treasure including two silver
scrolls that carried an ancient
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message that
surprised the world.
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Join me as we unravel the
mystery of the silver scrolls.
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I was born in a time and place
where nobody should be born.
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I am a product of the II World
War, I was born in the ghetto
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of Budapest Hungary, actually
nobody should be born there.
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In January of 1945 the
Russian army entered the ghetto
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of Budapest and since
then I'm a free person and I am
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alive. I guess that
between myself and death in the
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concentration camps
there is about a week or so.
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'Twas the end of the war
and the Germans were in a total
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disorder already and
they forgot vantus...
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I owe my life to the Red Army to
Joseph Sullen wonderful people
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many people owe him,
till death I owe him my life.
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Dr. Garfield Barkay was
born in the Budapest ghetto in
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Hungary right after the
Nazis entered the country and
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immigrated to Israel
with his family in 1950.
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He soon developed a keen
interest in the history and
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archeology of his new homeland.
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I came to Jerusalem when I was
six and I began wandering around
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in my house, I collected all
kinds of artifacts, coins, and
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and pottery, etc. and I
wondered who were the people who
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left these behind.
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And I forced my father to buy
me some books about archeology
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and that was obvious that
the next step would be studying
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the archeology after I
left the military service.
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And so, after his military
service he began studying
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archeology and completed
his doctorate Suma Cum Lauda
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at Tele Viv University and then
participated in and conducted
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numerous excavations
mostly focused on Jerusalem.
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Today, he's considered by
many to be the greatest expert
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on the archeology of Jerusalem.
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In the 1970's I was looking
for a power urban activities
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which took place next to a
city that were depending upon
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what happens in the city
but they are outside the city.
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And I tried to map all the
extramural human activities
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which took place outside
the city. I tried to put myself
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into the shoes of the ancient...
Where would I put quarrying
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where would I put burial
activities where I would put
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large public gatherings etc.
Those are activities that don't
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take place in the
densely built up city.
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So, theoretically, I stand
out on the map and this would be
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an ideal place.
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Gabriel Barkay gathered to his
friends had long been interested
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in Ketef Hinnom, he'd taken
a survey and collected pieces
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of broken pottery here
immediately below St. Andrews
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Scottish Church and he
found that the pottery shards
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dated back to the time of the
Old Testament Israelite kings.
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This convinced him that this
rocky knoll may well conceal
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some long-hidden secrets.
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In 1979 he decided that it
was time to begin excavating the
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site but he had a meager budget
and so could only afford a team
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of 12 and 13-year-old helpers
from a local archeology club.
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Not to be deterred, Barkay
began to investigate this site
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in earnest with his small
work crew of young students
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and volunteers.
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Well excavation had been
in progress only three days
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when a burial cave was
uncovered, the ancient tomb
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had been cut into the limestone
slope. Originally it would have
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formed a rock cave but over
the centuries the roof collapsed
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leaving the cave floor exposed.
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Excitement grew as one by one
other caves began to materialize
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there were nine in all, as
Barkay inspected the burial
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caves, the design and
architecture told his trained
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eye that they dated from
the era of Solomon's Temple,
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the first temple period,
the 8th to 6th centuries B.C.
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Don't expect to find
any treasure here Barkay
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told his young crew, its
probably been looted centuries
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ago, but never mind,
we're looking for understanding
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for how people
lived for what happened,
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but if we do find
treasures, blessed be.
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This burial cave dates
back to first temple period,
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it is a 2600-year-old burial
cave which had the roof of
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which was quarried away
unfortunately but if it would
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have been in here we
would be in total darkness and
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we would have to crawl on
our bellies in order to enter.
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The cave itself is a
multi- chambered burial cave,
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it has a large entry hole and it
is flanked on all sides by five
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burial chambers. The burial
chambers, each of them was
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meant for another son
of the founding father.
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This chamber has three benches
upon which they stretch the
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bodies, the benches are equipped
with scooped-out headrests
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for the heads of the deceased
imitating some devices that they
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had in their beds and then
below underneath the benches for
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stretching the bodies we have
the repository which was for
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the secondary burial, the burial
of the flesh to place upon the
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benches, the burial of the
bones took place down below.
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So they collected the bones
after the decay of the flesh
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in order to make room
for the next generation upon
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the benches.
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The burial caves clearly
reveal the burial customs of the
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first temple period. Shedding
light on an obscure text in the
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Bible in Judges 2: verse 10.
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The bones of the deceased were
literally gathered and placed
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with those of their ancestors,
the fathers in the repository
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under the burial bench.
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Moving along the line of caves
Barkay noticed that this one
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was different from the rest.
The care taken to carve and
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smooth its walls showed that
this was the tomb of a wealthy
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Jerusalem family. Barkay had
never seen anything like this
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before, he ran his fingers
along the bench, could this cave
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contain a special surprise?
Barkay hid beneath the bench
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looking for the repository
where they buried the bones
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when he looked inside all he saw
was what looked like an empty
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rock floor, Barkay
was deeply disappointed.
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Now the repository of chamber
number 25 in cave number 24
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was found in the season of 1979
and when I first crawled into
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the repository I realized
that unfortunately it is looted
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as were all the other
caves we excavated before.
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At least we had some
well preserved architectural
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features. I saw a kind of a
floor there, rocky floor which
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hinted that somebody was there
before me. I had the small crew
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of students among those kids,
there was a small boy (little
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Nathan) made me nervous all the
time. He an ugly habit of always
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pulling my shirt from
behind when I would turn around
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he would ask me silly questions.
I couldn't bear the sight
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of this boy anymore and so it
happens that he made one of the
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most important
discoveries in my life.
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Barkay needed to have all of
the accumulated dirt and stone
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cleaned out of the repository
and he had the perfect person
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to do the cleanout. I
took that kid little Nathan
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and I thought for a
while I'm not going to see him
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I gave him the job of
cleaning up that place for a
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photographer. So Barkay
told Nathan that the repository
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had to be as clean
as his mother's kitchen
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even if he had to lick it clean.
It had to be spotless for the
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photograph. To Barkay's
surprise Nathan cleans out the
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repository meticulously
but then Nathan gets bored.
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He has a hammer in his
hand usually a bad combination
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in his boredom, Nathan
starts banging his hammer
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on the repository rock floor
and this is where truth become
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stranger than fiction. The floor
cracks opens up and reveals
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an ancient treasure trove.
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After a while, I was far
away from here, I feel my shirt
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being pulled from behind and
suddenly when I turned around
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I saw him holding two
jugs repository jugs intact.
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They were from first temple
period. That was against all
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instructions, he had to call
over one of the archeologists
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when I turned around with
his discovery I was ready to
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suffocate him on the spot,
it was against all possible
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instructions, in any
case, he didn't come up with any
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explanation where from he
had those jugs, I went back
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with him and then I
realized what happened.
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Apparently a layer of
rock from the caved ceiling
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had collapsed and
covered the repository floor.
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Nathan's hammering had broken
it up and revealed the hidden
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treasure below. Leave it
to a 13-year-old troublemaker
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to make one of the greatest
archeological discoveries
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of all time. A secret room
filled with ancient treasure.
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But now this required
personal attention immediately.
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So Nathan and his friends
were sent home and replaced by
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a team of university archeology
students, they were sworn to
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secrecy, they weren't even
allowed to tell their parents
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spouses or friends. If
word got around Jerusalem
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that there were a
cave full of treasure here
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it would attract modern
day tomb robbers and create
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a security nightmare.
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Electricity was connected here
by the nearby St Andrews Church,
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the team worked 24 hours around
the clock carefully stone by
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stone, they removed the rubble.
As the last stone was removed
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light flashed into the complete
repository for the first time
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in almost one million days.
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Its ancient treasure lay
untouched, it had escaped
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the greedy hands of grave
robbers over the millennia.
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Gabriel Barkay peered into the
semi-darkness of this ancient
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burial cave. What he
saw caused his heart to race
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with excitement. He had
entered a long-lost world
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never intended to
be seen by human eyes.
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Surrounding him were
dozens of grinning skeletons,
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the remains of ninety-five
ancient Israelites, dead for
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thousands of years and there
was treasure, fabulous treasure.
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In the flickering light
thrown by the single light bulb,
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he and his team saw a
stunning array of burial gifts
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over a thousand precious
objects! There was silver
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jewelry, coins, precious stones
oil lamps, jars, and decanters
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vessels of
alabaster and ivory artifacts.
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The excavation also uncovered
an inscribed seal with the word
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PAULTA, which is a shortened
version of Palate Yahoo,
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a common name found in the
City of David at that time.
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Evidently, this cave belonged
to a wealthy family with that
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name and at least 95 members
were buried here over several
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generations.
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Amid the excitement one of the
students attention was attracted
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by a small object on the
floor of the cave near where
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she was kneeling. She
called Barkay' s attention to
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the gray-purple item on
the floor. It looked like a
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cigarette butt, it was
the color of corroded silver.
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Examining the small object
Barkay recognized it as an
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amulet. A strip of silver
rolled up into a tiny scroll
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with a hole in its center
through which string could
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be threaded. Barkay
suggested that it was a pendant
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probably worn around the
neck by one of these Israelites
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buried here in the cave.
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Later as they sieved the
soil accumulated on the floor
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over the centuries another
amulet a second still smaller
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silver scroll was found in
the cave. The larger scroll
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was about two centimeters
in length and one centimeter in
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diameter. The second
scroll was about half the size.
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This is the first and only
intact burial repository of the
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1st Temple period 8th to
6th century B.C. ever found
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in Jerusalem. Of some
1,000 items found in the tomb
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the silver scrolls were a
special interest to Barkay,
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he was convinced that
there must be writing on them,
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he was sure of it but the
scrolls were too brittle to
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unroll. For two and a half
years Barkay tried to find some
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way of unrolling the silver
scrolls, they were sent to
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experts at the
University of Leeds in Britain.
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There some of the most
experienced restorers of ancient
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artifacts and metal experts
available for such delicate
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work. The British experts
felt however that the danger of
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danger of destroying the scrolls
was too great, they refused
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to risk working on the
scrolls and returned them.
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The scrolls were then sent to
Germany, the German laboratory
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similarly declined and
sent the scrolls back to Israel
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nobody was prepared to touch
them they were just too delicate
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and fragile, the danger of
harming them was too great.
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There was no previous experience
in opening or unrolling
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such objects and the natural
way of dealing with it...
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it was found out to be made of
silver and we tried to heat up
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the silver in order to soften
it and to unroll it and that
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was found to be destructive
and actually, we lost some parts
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in this way. For three years
the contents of the scrolls
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remained a secret, Barkay
was frustrated, he feared the
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scrolls would keep
their secrets forever.
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Finally, the scrolls
were sent to the Israel Museum
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of Laboratories, Joseph
Dodo Schenav was given the
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responsibility of devising
some means to unravel it.
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The responsibility was
enormous, Schenav considered
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every possibility,
finally he came up with a new
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and innovative solution,
he soaked the largest scroll
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in an acid solution to remove
thousands of years of corrosion.
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Then the outer layer
was carefully smeared with
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acrylic emulsion to give
it strength. When it dried
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it was transparent and elastic.
Schienhav then carefully
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unrolled the first layer...layer
by layer, he repeated the
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process millimeter by millimeter
over a period of months both
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scrolls were carefully unrolled.
The larger of the scrolls
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was about 2 centimeters
wide and about ten centimeters
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in length, it was made of pure
silver. Eagerly Barkay placed
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the largest scroll under a
microscope it's covered with
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writing...he cried excitedly
as he squinted through the
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eyepiece where he saw the
faint etchings of ancient Hebrew
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letters. Now, the challenge
was to decipher the writing
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and even if they could decipher
the characters inscribed
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on the ancient scrolls,
would they, could they have any
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meaning today?
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I could identify the
first word which I deciphered
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immediately on the
spot that was Udaveavave?
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Which is anglicized as Jehovah
or the private name of God.
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Wherever the words the "Lord"
appears in the English Bible
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this is what we have
in the Hebrew original.
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But it wasn't enough to
decipher the full message
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and unlock the
mystery of the silver scrolls.
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However, now he was more
determined than ever to find out
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what was inscribed on the
scrolls, he just had to discover
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their message.
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Years passed and then in 1998
the scrolls along with the other
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treasures found at Ketef Hinnom
were turned over to the Israel
00:21:18.37\00:21:22.18
Museum in preparation for an
exhibit to be held some months
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later. Ada Yardini, an expert
in the ancient script noticed
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something on the scrolls that
Barkay and others had missed.
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As she closely examined
the scrolls, she discovered
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God's name written a third
time on both scrolls in three
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consecutive lines armed
with this new information she
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sought the help of a friend,
a devout Jew, he knew the
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Hebrew scriptures virtually
by heart, do you know the
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priestly benediction he asked,
it's the only place in the
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scriptures where God's name
appears three times like that.
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This was the clue that
unlocked the mystery of the
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silver scrolls.
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Yardini soon deciphered
the rest of the words.
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Inscribed on the scrolls
practically word for word
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was the priestly benediction
found in Number 6: 24- 26.
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They are the words that Moses
brought from God and gave to
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Aaron and his sons
to bless the people.
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The High Priest prayed
this benediction, this blessing
00:22:32.05\00:22:36.38
over the children
of Israel every day.
00:22:36.42\00:22:39.59
The silver scrolls contained
the oldest Biblical inscription
00:22:52.57\00:22:57.37
ever found. When the ancient
scribe etched those words
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some 2,700 years ago,
the prophet Jeremiah was
00:23:01.71\00:23:05.95
still alive, Solomon's temple
still stood and the heirs of
00:23:06.45\00:23:10.12
King David sat on the throne.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
would not be written for another
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400 years. Now when
the Dead Sea Scrolls were
00:23:16.56\00:23:20.26
discovered in 1947, they
were the oldest Hebrew Biblical
00:23:20.30\00:23:24.57
inscriptions ever found,
they were 1,000 years older
00:23:24.60\00:23:29.20
than any other manuscripts
in existence, now the
00:23:29.24\00:23:33.44
silver scrolls are 400
years older and here's what's
00:23:33.48\00:23:38.15
amazing although written
about 2,700 years ago, the words
00:23:38.18\00:23:44.45
are virtually identical
with those found in our Bibles.
00:23:44.49\00:23:49.16
It's a staggering fact
that in the course of over
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two and a half millennia
of copying by hand no errors
00:23:53.53\00:23:58.13
have crept into that text.
00:23:58.17\00:24:00.14
This suggests a remarkable
accuracy in the transmission
00:24:00.17\00:24:05.17
of the Bible across the
centuries and through the
00:24:05.21\00:24:08.61
millennia. The discovery of
the Silver Scrolls is a timely
00:24:08.64\00:24:13.15
reminder that we can
trust the accuracy of the Bible
00:24:13.18\00:24:17.19
as we have it today.
00:24:17.22\00:24:20.69
Perhaps the Silver Scrolls
bring a special message from the
00:24:22.86\00:24:27.03
distant past to us all. You
see, this priestly benediction
00:24:27.06\00:24:32.03
is the only prayer written
by God Himself for His people.
00:24:32.07\00:24:36.91
Yes, this prayer etched on
the Silver Scrolls is the only
00:24:36.94\00:24:41.98
prayer that was dictated
by God to bless His people
00:24:42.01\00:24:46.11
and that includes you. This
is God's prayer for you, in fact
00:24:46.15\00:24:52.72
in this blessing, God
refers to you six times and His
00:24:52.75\00:24:58.96
blessing covers every aspect
of your life. He knows exactly
00:24:58.99\00:25:04.07
what you need, He decides to
shower you with the following.
00:25:04.10\00:25:07.94
An ancient blessing, God's
prayer for you that demonstrates
00:25:34.33\00:25:38.73
His desire to bless you
with prosperity, safe-keeping,
00:25:38.77\00:25:43.37
a lighted way, unmerited
favor, affection, inner peace,
00:25:43.41\00:25:48.84
and happiness.
00:25:48.88\00:25:50.21
These are God's most basic
desires for you, how good is
00:25:50.25\00:25:55.18
that, the message etched
on the silver scrolls and now
00:25:55.22\00:26:00.12
etched on our hearts, a
message thousands of years old
00:26:00.16\00:26:03.76
and still perfectly
modern and relevant.
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