I just saw that the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is coming to the Houston Museum of Natural Science starting October 1st


</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls include the earliest known manuscripts of the books of the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament. Rarely seen outside of Jerusalem, this unique exhibition includes actual fragments of 13 of the scrolls written more than 2000 years ago, plus artifacts from the ancient Dead Sea settlement of Qumran near the caves where the scrolls were discovered in 1947.

Hours:
Monday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. (thru November)
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (after November)
Wednesday - Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> LINK TO MUSEUM

Are these the actual scrolls or replicas? I went to one of their exhibits and thought it was cool until they told me it was King Tut replicas

They 'say' that there will be actuall fragments... Exactly what that means...???

this is so cooowel...i caint wait......