A large number of annotated pictures, maps, diagrams and drawings complete the non-fiction side of the book. The complicated events of the time are clearly outlined. Passages such as the one that follows will leave the young reader curious to learn more about archeology and ancient history. There, he found broken jars with leather scrolls written in Aramaic and Hebrew, Biblical manuscripts dating from more than one thousand years earlier than any previously found. These documents and others from nearby caves are thought to have been a hidden library used sometime between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100 by a Jewish sect.
Scholars agree that more stories from the ancient world have yet to be found.
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