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  • curprev 18:00, 18 February 2026‎ VoynichCr talk contribs‎ 682 bytes +45‎
  • curprev 17:57, 18 February 2026‎ VoynichCr talk contribs‎ 637 bytes +637‎ Created page with "The '''Essenes''' were a Jewish sect active from roughly 150 BCE to 70 CE, known for strict communal life and intense devotion to scripture. Living mainly at Qumran, near the Dead Sea, they copied and preserved hundreds of manuscripts. Around 900 fragments and about 200 complete or partial scrolls have been found in 11 nearby caves. To protect their library during the turmoil of the First Jewish-Roman War, they stored the texts in clay jars, which kept them intact..."
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