(6:06 VIEWING) — If you are like me, odds are good you have never been up close to an original document somebody wrote more than 2,000 years ago, which was so well-preserved that it remains legible even today.

If that sounds like something you would like to do, then head over to the Museum of the Bible located at 400 4th Street SW in Washington, D.C. only a few blocks from the House side of the Capitol Hill campus.

There you will find a fascinating display of hundreds of the actual Dead Sea Scrolls, be able to talk and listen to some of the world’s top experts on the unique importance of this historic archeological treasure, and soak up wisdom from documents that sat unseen in caves bordering the Red Sea in Israel for two millennia.

In the current exhibit that runs through May of this year, the scrolls include texts representing the whole of the book of Isaiah, as well as generous portions of the Psalms, Numbers, Lamentations, plus portions of several non-canonical works. The current selection will be succeeded by a different selection from the scrolls from

When the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1947, it prompted a massive archeological effort that ultimately found more than 900 manuscripts located in 11 caves in the cliffs on the Northwest side of the Dead Sea. The current selection on display will be replaced by a new selection that will be available for viewing from May to September 2026.

In the following video from the Museum of the Bible, the story of how the Dead Sea Scrolls were found is told, as well as the odyssey the scrolls followed thereafter, and much information about what’s in these books.

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