The scrolls go into jars at Qumran

The scrolls go into jars at Qumran.

In plain words

The scrolls, copied from about 250 BC to AD 68, go into jars in the caves at Qumran: preservation outside anyone's control, laid down some nineteen centuries before the scrolls would be needed as proof.

The mechanism

PRESERVATION OUTSIDE CUSTODY — deposited some nineteen centuries before the moment they are needed as proof

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE WITNESSES AND THE TURN 44 to 312 AD
• Plate — Musée du Louvre, Paris · photo Tangopaso · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jarre_à_manuscrit_de_la_mer_Morte_(Louvre,_AO_31164).jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY