Let’s clear something up first because not everyone wants to admit they’re still wondering: Are the Dead Sea Scrolls even real? Yep. Absolutely. They’re not myth, metaphor, or museum fiction. The actual scrolls were found in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956 — and we’re talking about over 900 separate manuscripts, mostly written on parchment or papyrus, dating back to somewhere between 250 BCE