Friday, January 28, 2005

MOBILE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXIBIT UPDATE:
Dead Sea Scrolls attract record crowds (Sun Herald)

2,000-year-old fragments capture imaginations

By KAT BERGERON

THE SUN HERALD

Fragments of 12 Dead Sea Scrolls, part of the historic cache found in 1947 by a goat herder and now on exhibit at the Gulf Coast Exploreum, have lured a record-breaking first-week crowd of 9,200 to the Mobile museum.

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I can't say I'm surprised. The Scrolls always generate a great deal of public interest.

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