Finding the Scrolls a Bedouin shepherd climbing amongst some cliffs near the Dead sea In 1947, threw a rock into a cave. He thought he heard the rock hit some pottery pieces. He found form But he couldn't read it because most of an ancient of writing. the scrolls were written in Aramaic. This was an old language s 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.