Scientists analyzed the Temple Scroll to work out how it had been preserved so well for 2,000 years.
However, as well as storing historical information, the Dead Sea Scrolls also contain information about the materials and processing techniques that would have been used at the time.
A team of researchers, led by Admir Masic from MIT, was provided an inch-sized fragment of the Temple Scroll to study. At almost 25 feet in length, this document is one of the largest of the scrolls. It is also one of the thinnest, measuring about a tenth of a millimeter. Yet the Temple Scroll is also one of the best preserved of all these historic texts, having the clearest and whitest writing surface.
Section of the Temple Scroll. Scientists have analyzed the chemical composition and found the parchment was rubbed with a specific mix of salts that gave it its unusual brightness.Science Advances Researchers say this salt coating is what gave the Temple Scroll its bright white surface and may have helped preserve it. The significance of the text may be why it was treated with a different mix of salts. In an email to, Masic and co-author Ira Rabin said:"The Temple Scroll was very special. Not just holy text. Some considered it to be a sixth book of Moses.
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