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Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

An archaeological investigation at this historical site of the Dead Sea Scrolls, spotlighting new discoveries that could transform our understanding of what happened at Masada 2,000 years ago.

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This particular puzzle gives us
a glimpse into a document - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

This particular puzzle gives us a glimpse into a document

Narrator: Pioneering ultra
high-resolution photography - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: Pioneering ultra high-resolution photography

She moves the pieces around
on her computer screen - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

She moves the pieces around on her computer screen

It's a 2,000-year-old
electronic jigsaw puzzle. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It's a 2,000-year-old electronic jigsaw puzzle.

We got lucky because we got
most of the fragments - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

We got lucky because we got most of the fragments

Narrator: Eshbal discovers that
the writer of this scroll - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: Eshbal discovers that the writer of this scroll

I just had a hunch that these
two notes were connected. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

I just had a hunch that these two notes were connected.

Maybe just the scribe just ran
out of space and he turned. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Maybe just the scribe just ran out of space and he turned.

So it was able to join
these bunch of fragments - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

So it was able to join these bunch of fragments

I got a whole column
from margin to margin. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

I got a whole column from margin to margin.

Narrator:
This pioneering technology - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: This pioneering technology

We don't know it from elsewhere - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

We don't know it from elsewhere

Narrator:
This calendar is a clue - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: This calendar is a clue

It made this sect separate from
the rest of the jewish groups. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It made this sect separate from the rest of the jewish group...

The group that is associated
with these calendar refers - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

The group that is associated with these calendar refers

They prepare for a conflict
at the end of days - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

They prepare for a conflict at the end of days

They outline this doomsday
prophecy in a text - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

They outline this doomsday prophecy in a text

Today, new technology
is deciphering - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Today, new technology is deciphering

One of their texts,
the war scroll, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

One of their texts, the war scroll,

Is a final battle at masada
that conflict? - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Is a final battle at masada that conflict?

This is the city of caesarea
on israel's mediterranean coast. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

This is the city of caesarea on israel's mediterranean ...

It is built by king herod
in the first century b.C. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It is built by king herod in the first century b.C.

Herod named the city's caesarea
in honor of his imperial master, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Herod named the city's caesarea in honor of his imperia...

Today, this ancient port city - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Today, this ancient port city

Peter gendleman from
the israel antiquities authority - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Peter gendleman from the israel antiquities authority

Look, you see
it's only small portion, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Look, you see it's only small portion,

Look how big...
[ speaks indistinctly ] - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Look how big... [ speaks indistinctly ]

Narrator: The size of the base
tells peter the original column - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: The size of the base tells peter the original colu...

It's one of the largest columns
that was found in caesarea. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It's one of the largest columns that was found in caesa...

And the temple itself, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

And the temple itself,

During the first century a.D., - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

During the first century a.D.,

Peter's excavation reveals
how much the romans invest - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Peter's excavation reveals how much the romans invest

It's remains of the floor
made of roman concrete - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It's remains of the floor made of roman concrete

Narrator: The romans import
the ingredients - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: The romans import the ingredients

Let's try to put it together
and see footprints - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Let's try to put it together and see footprints

It's a footprint of special
kind of boots - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It's a footprint of special kind of boots

So clearly evidence
of the new technologies - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

So clearly evidence of the new technologies

Here, the romans build
on a grand scale. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Here, the romans build on a grand scale.

Just like in rome, where
the empire shows off its wealth - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Just like in rome, where the empire shows off its wealth

But peter thinks
not all the buildings - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

But peter thinks not all the buildings

He investigates the ruins
of a mysterious structure. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

He investigates the ruins of a mysterious structure.

Can see it was
a sizable building. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Can see it was a sizable building.

Very good masonry, not look
like private dwelling, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Very good masonry, not look like private dwelling,

Narrator: Peter believes
this is one of the main - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: Peter believes this is one of the main

All this area probably
was inhabited by jews. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

All this area probably was inhabited by jews.

Narrator: It shows caesarea is
a multi-cultural metropolis - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: It shows caesarea is a multi-cultural metropolis

But peter thinks the jewish
population resent being treated - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

But peter thinks the jewish population resent being treated

There was start some struggle
between the jewish community - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

There was start some struggle between the jewish community

They want to be equal
roman citizens. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

They want to be equal roman citizens.

In 66 a.D.,
the caesarean jews riot. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

In 66 a.D., the caesarean jews riot.

The romans will not
tolerate that. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

The romans will not tolerate that.

It's finished by killing
of most of caesarean jews - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It's finished by killing of most of caesarean jews

And following the events
in caesarea - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

And following the events in caesarea

So the romans send 60,000
troops to crush the rebellion. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

So the romans send 60,000 troops to crush the rebellion.

What clues are revealed
by another strange discovery - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

What clues are revealed by another strange discovery

Does a doomsday prophecy
and one of the dead sea scrolls - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Does a doomsday prophecy and one of the dead sea scrolls

Clues may lie here. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Clues may lie here.

Next to the cave,
where most scrolls are found - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Next to the cave, where most scrolls are found

Beside it, row upon row of
mysterious stone mounds. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Beside it, row upon row of mysterious stone mounds.

The bodies lie all alone
in six-foot deep pits - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

The bodies lie all alone in six-foot deep pits

All lie on their backs
with their hands - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

All lie on their backs with their hands

And their heads pointing south - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

And their heads pointing south

Are these the sons of light, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Are these the sons of light,

Here, look,
look at this structure here. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Here, look, look at this structure here.

Yossi nagar from
the israel antiquities authority - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Yossi nagar from the israel antiquities authority

He excavates 33 of the graves. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

He excavates 33 of the graves.

So I say, okay, that's weird. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

So I say, okay, that's weird.

Narrator: Is this mass burial
a military cemetery? - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: Is this mass burial a military cemetery?

Are the soldiers
of the sons of light - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Are the soldiers of the sons of light

A clue may lie
in the age of the men. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

A clue may lie in the age of the men.

Most of the soldiers
are from the same age group. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Most of the soldiers are from the same age group.

There are people around 18, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

There are people around 18,

Narrator: Yossi examines
the skeletons, teeth, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: Yossi examines the skeletons, teeth,

The people that were
buried here, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

The people that were buried here,

Narrator: The age range of
the men is between 20 and 50. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: The age range of the men is between 20 and 50.

It's unlikely
that they're rebel soldiers. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

It's unlikely that they're rebel soldiers.

But is there
another connection - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

But is there another connection

Yossi investigates
if they were alive - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Yossi investigates if they were alive

I'm an anthropologist
I only look on the bones, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

I'm an anthropologist I only look on the bones,

You can only guess
so we must take a bone sample - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

You can only guess so we must take a bone sample

That's a good way
of telling the age of samples. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

That's a good way of telling the age of samples.

Professor elisabetta boaretto
of the weizmann institute - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Professor elisabetta boaretto of the weizmann institute

She uses radiocarbon
technology - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

She uses radiocarbon technology

To calculate the date, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

To calculate the date,

Collagen is a protein which is
very important for the bones - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Collagen is a protein which is very important for the bones

Narrator: But the bones from
qumran are very degraded. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: But the bones from qumran are very degraded.

There is almost none
of the vital collagen. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

There is almost none of the vital collagen.

Normally, you would give up
about these bones, - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Normally, you would give up about these bones,

Narrator:
Elisabetta has pioneered - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Narrator: Elisabetta has pioneered

Boaretto: Hopefully, we will
get the date out of this. - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Doomsday Prophecy

Boaretto: Hopefully, we will get the date out of this.

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An archaeological investigation at this historical site of the Dead Sea Scrolls, spotlighting new discoveries that could transform our understanding of what happened at Masada 2,000 years ago.

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Year: 2020

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Released: 12 Apr 2020

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