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Thank you for this comment. I myself began to doubt whether any of the DSSes were real after reading the article, and your comment has assured me that they are.

Thank you for this comment. I myself began to doubt whether any of the DSSes were real after reading the article, and your comment has assured me that they are. Additionally, those asides about the researcher's hobbies are indeed a trope of modern science documentaries, written by people who likely think that science isn't interesting enough on its own. Here is where I expressed my confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253597 Also, you say parchment; should it not be papyrus? Parchment doesn't get cracked.

cto_of_antifa 4y ago
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bambax 4y ago
> Also, you say parchment; should it not be papyrus? Parchment doesn't get cracked. Sources I could find all say the Dead Sea Scroll are in parchment, not papyrus, but as I said I'm not a scholar or an expert on this. It seems the problem with parchment is that it doesn't absorb ink, so that sometimes the mere rolling or unrolling can crack the ink out of the surface, even if the surface itself stays intact. Also, many fragments are torn apart, and in that case there should be no ink at the tear, whereas the forgeries were written all over, from side to side.