the dead sea scrolls were found by bedouins between 1952 and 1954. the bedouins sold their finds to researchers in east jerusalem, which belonged to jordan at the time, while the wadi seiyal was part of the territory of israel. among the fragments were also parts of a scroll of the twelve prophets book. amongst other things, in response to rumors, that parts of the sold scrolls came from israel, hebrew university of jerusalem sent two expeditions in 1960 and 1961 for exploration thorough wadi to the west of the dead sea. in the expedition b of the company in spring 1961 under the direction of yohanan aharoni, who examined mainly the caves on the southern edge of nahal hever in cave no. 8 (the cave of horror) it finds: among other things, fragments of the greek scroll. most of which only a few centimeters between large fragments could be still associate with the twelve minor prophets. it also became apparent relatively quickly that the fragments were parts of the same scroll that had been purchased ten years earlier. the locality of this role - as well as most of the other scrolls of the seiyâl collection - was therefore contrary to the specification of the bedouin of the nachal chever determined before.