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Ancient Calendar Mystery Solved, Shedding New Light on Dead Sea Scrolls History
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Researchers have resolved a 2,000-year-old mystery by confirming that the Qumran sect successfully used a unique, perfectly ordered 364-day calendar to keep holidays on the exact same weekdays. This breakthrough provides historians with a clearer, more harmonious understanding of ancient timekeeping and daily life during the era the scrolls were written.
Researchers have resolved a 2,000-year-old mystery by confirming that the Qumran sect successfully used a unique, perfectly ordered 364-day calendar to keep holidays on the exact same weekdays. This breakthrough provides historians with a clearer, more harmonious understanding of ancient timekeeping and daily life during the era the scrolls were written.