In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd climbing amongst some cliffs near the Dead Sea threw a rock into a cave. He thought he heard the rock hit some pottery pieces He found an ancient form of writing. But he couldn't read it because most of the scrolls were written in Aramaic. This was an old language spoken near the time of Jesus Christ. Besides, many of the scrolls were broken into tiny pieces Some pieces had only a few words of text on each