An Afghan shepherd enters a wolves den perched high in the
mountains of Samangan province looking for a sheep that went
astray. Inside, he doesn’t find what he is looking for, but just
as he is about to leave he notices something strange: Pieces of
old parchment lie strewn on the dirt floor. Archaeologists
discover 2nd Temple seal in J'lem one of the stories behind the
recent discovery of about 150 manuscripts and artifacts in a
remote cave that belonged to a medieval Jewish “But there are
several and they are always the same about shepherds looking for
sheep,” admitted Prof. Haggai Ben-Shammai of the Hebrew
University on Sunday. “Who knows how they were really found?”
Scholars are currently in the early stages of poring over the
texts dating from the 11th century and written in Judeo-Arabic
and Judeo-Persian. have dates so we can date them precisely,”
said Prof. Shaul Shaked of the Hebrew “There’s no doubt that
they are authentic. They correspond with similar findings from
the past.” The expert in ancient Pe