The Copper Scroll Decoded: One man’s search for the fabulous treasure of ancient Egypt - Tapa dura

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Robert Feather is a professional metallurgist who has spent the last 20 working as a technical journalist and studying comparitive religions. He has a working knowledge of Hebrew and a background in Judaism.

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The Copper Scroll is the most enigmatic of all the Dead Sea Scrolls. Uniquely the information contained in it is stored on a metal scroll rather than on parchment. Why? Could it be because this particular scroll refers to many treasures of gold, silver and other precious metals that have been buried in the Desert?

Various translators understood the weights and measures in the Scroll to be ancient Hebrew measurements. Using these measurements, two archaeological teams have gone in search of this treasure, and both have returned empty handed.

When Robert Feather, a matllurgist fascinated by ancient Jewish history, read about the Copper Scroll he had a strong hunch that the reason the experts were strugglingto decipher it was because they had failed to understand its true origins. Using his professional skills as a metallurgist, he set about looking at the quality of the metal in the context of copper mining and working in biblical times.

Robert Feather has now solved the enigma of the Copper Scroll and reveals in this book exactly where the treasure is, and how the ascetic Jewish sect known as the Qumran Essenes came to be its guardians. The deciphering of the Scroll led Feather on a quest through ancient Jewish and Egyptian history. His discoveries will radically alter the way we view the Bible and, indeed, challenge us to look at our history in a very different light.