6,000-year-old child skeleton found in Israel’s ‘Cave of Horrors’ along with ancient Dead Sea scrolls and world’s oldest basket

Written mainly in Greek, newly unveiled Dead Sea Scrolls fragments contain parts of the book of the 12 minor prophets. Massive survey of Israel’s Judean Desert caves also discovered body of mummified child wrapped in a 6,000-year-old blanket

• Archaeologists found the child’s preserved skeleton naturally mummified in the dry cave.
• The “Cave of Horrors” takes its name from the 40 skeletons found during excavations in the 1960s.
• A CT scan revealed the child was 6 to 12 years old. The child is thought to have been a girl.

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