One of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the Copper Scroll was discovered by archaeologists on March 14, 1952, near Khirbet Qumran. It was the last of 15 scrolls discovered in the cave.
While the text on the other scrolls, written on papyrus, were concerned with hymns, prayers and formulas, the Copper Scroll, estimated to date to between 25 and 100 AD, lists 64 places where gold and silver were buried or hidden.
The style of writing on the Copper Scroll is different to the others, and it has been theorised that the treasure listed was from a temple inventory hidden from Roman troops.
The scroll is on display at the Jordan Museum in Amman.
Gobekli Tepe is thought to have been built and occupied towards the end of the last Ice Age, between 9600 and 7000BC, during an era marked by the “beginnings of village life”.
The settlement, which pre-dates pottery and the invention of the wheel, has caused heated debate since it was discovered in 1963, sparking a re-evaluation about the evolution of civilisation, in particular concerning hunter-gatherers.
The planning and building of the site would have required organisation and resources that anthropologists believed were unknown in their societies.
The Neolithic archaeological site in the Anatolia Region is home to the world’s oldest known megaliths — huge stone pillars decorated with carvings of animals.
However, the lack of housing, cooking hearths and utensils at the site, point to evidence that it was not a settlement but perhaps a temple or place of worship.
Just more than three kilometres down the road from arguably the most famous henge in the world, Stonehenge, is another stone monument, built about 400 years after its neighbour.
Unearthed in 2015, Super-Henge is made up of a collection of stone monoliths found beneath the bank of a grass-covered, circular embankment called Durrington Walls.
Researchers believe the area, built about 4,600 years ago, was a settlement of up to 1,000 houses, home to about 4,000 people. Some have theorised it was where the people who built Stonehenge lived.
