cliffs near the Dead Sea In a shepherd climbing amongst some hit some pottery pieces. 1947. Bedouin he heard the rock threw a rock into a cave. He thought He found an ancient for 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