Dead Sea Scroll

Have you heard of it?

The Dead Sea Scrolls & the Ancient World exhibition is now at the Art House.

come and follow me to the ancient times...

Do not think that you have been to the wrong place when you see 1827, the Thai restaurant. The entrance to the Art House is just around the corner.

There's a bag search before you entered and no bag allows. Hand carried your persona belongings. No flash photography and video taking allow which means cameras are in.

We were first ushered into a screening room to view this film on how all these dead sea scrolls had been discovered.

So it was discovered in 1847 at Qumran, near the dead sea scroll when a shepherd was looking for its lost goat and accidentally discovered all these scrolls.

(L) In the olden days, there were no printing and monks had to painstakingly copied the scriptures by hands. The bible shown here was the first Latin bible.

(L) A well preserved ancient scroll written in Hebrew. The salty atmosphere around Qumran caves had helped to preserve such important artifacts until present times.

(R) A pottery in the shape of cattle. It had been speculated that ancient tribal ethnics had developed a system to record their livestock, in the shape or drawings.

This is the first bible that had gone up to the moon and back. Termed as Lunar bible, it had a complete King James version OT inscribed onto a microfilm. It travelled to the moon on Apollo 14 and one could read the scriptures under a microscope.

The smallest pulpit bible. It is really so tiny that I doubt a hand held magnifying glass can do any wonders.