Jordan has demanded that Israel hand over some of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. The kingdom claims Israel seized the scrolls illegally from a museum in East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967.
"Israel seized the scrolls and other antiquities from the Palestinian
Museum, which was managed by Jordan in east Jerusalem when it occupied
this part of the city in 1967," said Rafea Harahsheh of Jordan's
antiquities department.
The scrolls were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947. The
famous parchments number 900 documents and biblical texts belonging to the Essenes, a breakaway Jewish sect that lived in the craggy hills above the Dead Sea where the scrolls were discovered. MORE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>