[bayourod]

"66 CE?" "

Whens'at?

[Ros42]

Will be interesting to hear the results of this!

[kylaka]

This is interesting. But to get back somewhat on subject, lately it has been found that the Governor of New Jersey is not much interested in bones. He does, by admission, have an unusual interest in boners. Unfortunately, boners, which can be a driving force in public policy sometimes, are not likely
to become part of the fossil records anytime soon.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Just mythoughts]

"The seven bone deposits of mules eaten and buried inside cleaning pots and storage jars by the Qumran community in the 1st century BCE will undergo DNA testing this week."


WHAT????? Hebrews, Israelites would not eat mules!!!!

[Lockbar]

Animal bones? Wait, are they trying to say that sheep and maybe a cow wrote the dead sea scrolls? What am I missing here? One group of people used only one genetically specific branch of some particular species? I'm pretty sure "farm" animals were traded everyday all over the middle east. Sometimes I think these scientists go too far in trying to prove a theory. Perhaps they have to keep really "reaching" to keep university grant money coming in.

[Mamzelle]

First of all, I'd like to know why anyone would bother to bury mule bones.

[bert]

He is way off base. his efforts are malscholorship designed to get a raies.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The seven bone deposits of mules eaten and buried inside cleaning pots and storage jars by the Qumran community in the 1st century BCE will undergo DNA testing this week.

Mules? That doesn't sound plausible, these critters are not kosher. Unless they were starving and mules were all they had.