The Mystery Of The 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Of Lost Jewish Treasure
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- The discovery of an ancient copper scroll in a Jordanian cave leads to a lifelong quest by a young British scholar in the search for lost Jewish treasure.
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Very interesting to see such a man pursue his mission, despite his setbacks. A man who went as far as he could. Good Job. Keep on trying, and going to find the truth.
The determination of John Allegro is so inspirational.
I applaud such a character. It's because of people like
this that we have made it this far with our knowledge
and convictions of the scriptures. God bless you!
I struggle to think that contemporaries thought it was fake. I believe they knew they could not scout for it themselves and did not want him to find anything precious. Anyone can see how looted the Pharaoh's tombs were/are. 2,000 years is a long time for people to search.
Another possibility is that the others originally involved that claimed it was a hoax. Just said that to discredit Allegro. So he couldn't readily recover the items. Because even though he didn't find the treasures themselves, all the areas existed. This meaning it was real, and because it was on fine copper, meant to last,a great time span. That would provide a great deal of validity. That way the true levels of treasures could be quietly taken away, without record. I say this because, of the time frame of when they were translated, and the hand written letters and communication received. A span of months, turned into years,before it was acted on.
That much time was enough to actually retrieve the items, write a book discrediting the scrolls ,getting recognition for that,whilst keeping the majority of the wealth recovered silent.
That is the most likely a most probable way. The Romans got the larger portion which would have been good enough, and wouldn't have wasted time on a "goose hunt" remainder. The missing scroll is just that of what it was....
Very intriguing. Thank you
Always wondered if anybody had made an effort to find this treasure. Great to finally hear the story behind it. The treasure would have been removed by romans or by the templar knights or simply looted long before Allegro searched for it.....
They would have moved it when the romans were coming
@And-Not-Do-What-I-say actually titus took most of it from the temple. His triumphant return to rome with amongst many other treasures, the golden table and golden menorah are recorded on his marble arch. These were all 2nd temple gold treasures
Or like other shoolars sad it was just a fiction...
@marcel-ec6qe part of the treasure was taken by the romans and emperpr Titus had the gold displayed in his triumohant welcome parade, returning to Rome from his campaign in the holy land. The treasure pieces can be seen today carved in the marble titus arch where thry are carried by roman soldiers in the parade. This was real not a made up story. The romans only found the largest pieces though such as the solid gold menorah and solid gold table the smaller pieces and documents were likely hidden away just like the copper scroll indicates and it must have been an enormous quantity.
Yeah if they managed to even find out about it
So glad King Hussein gave money to help. The man in charge of sea scrolls sounds like a pharise. Full of his own self importance and therefore didnt really want Odessa to find anything. Great doco. Thank you for posting
Thank you
What an amazing man was john,,there are not many people like him around anymore
Why do you use more than one comma, but no period?
True. And what a nasty little man that Roland de Vaux was.
@@slappy8941 just had my period now
This narrator is something else
needs more overly dramatic music and war drums
Yeah, it's nearly watchable.
LMAO. Good thing I was lying down when I read your comment. I'm sure I would have fallen over laughing. Thank you.
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War drums.....😂😂😂
11 minutes in and still laughing every time I think about those WAR DRUMS 🥁 🪘 🤣
Need more cow bell
@@leechamlee1347gosh darn it give me more cow bells 😂
This is a good documentary. Its theme is and will always be relevant. Chasing dreams of love, fantasies of grandeur, theoretical fabrications, hidden treasures, unattainable political and military goals has been extremely common in the history of our species. Many have lost their sanity, fortune and even their lives doing so. Empires have been destroyed by leaders dominated by unhealthy obsessions, entire nations have been dragged into terrible and predictable defeats that could have been avoided. Mythology is full of warnings about the danger of irrationally pursuing something impossible. Religious parables fulfill this same function. And we have History as an immense repository of tragic episodes related to this problem. And yet men continue to jump down rabbit holes. And to make matters worse, today they are led there by tireless algorithms that know how to exploit each person's vulnerabilities by analyzing the mass of information they produce online. This is certainly not a good sign.
How could it not be authentic ? Amazing find amazing translation . Treasures plundered ! Just like egypts
To this day mysterious caves are being found and in them artifacts, treasure has never been discovered
Actually St Paul in one of his letters mentions a copper smith who betrayed him over Sacred scrolls ? So, copper engraving for longevity was known at that time.
not over any scrolls, over Paul's preaching Christ - (2 Timothy 4:14-16) "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: {15} Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our *WORDS* . {16} At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge."
One of the best persons I have ever known and I think maybe he liked phil. I know him as John Spear. Awsome guy. I loved him lke a brother.
It amazes me that people accept the background music as if it were still a silent movie era.
It's such a primitive attitude.
I was trying to just to listen to it, whilst resting but the music and the strange whooshing sounds make me jump!
I thought, we're too advanced to be stuck in the past.
So, I'm going to find another site, without music and I'll subscribe to it.
Thank you for trying.
Excellent story!
Truly fascinating.
What an amazing story!
Two of the greatest tragedies that happened to the dead sea scrolls were number one young boys, who didn't know what they were, took them home and they were used for fire. Secondly, when they were found and it was discovered what they were they involved the Roman Catholic Church. Two tragic events, that altar truth.
Rubbish
Two opposites, the boys totally innocent, the church totally duplicitous (for want of a better description)
What happen if the boys sell the scrolls and how much it worth ?
The crime of the Actual Old Testament cannon kept by the exiled Levite Temple priests.
And the WHOLE of the so called Church Catholic and protestant ignore them to follow their own doctrines and traditions just like the Pharisees
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The theologians never ignore them if they are honest . We wait for them to be translated we read them ourselves compare them to what we have and the oldest we have. Concerning the biblical texts we have found no differences between them for example the malicious and zephaniah texts and what we have are the same with no variances and what was discovered were way older than we already have which says much about the accuracy of the sacred text and how it is dealt with through the ages.
I thought 2 shepherd boys found the scrolls after they threw a stone in to the caves and heard something smash
Yeah
Fascinating thanks for sharing
Copper is easy to carve on. It’s the tool that they used that made it easier to write on the sheets of copper. They belonged to Solomon. The stylus they used was solid gold. That’s what’s wrong with using copper. It corrodes. Of course the people back then didn’t know that happened with copper. The only thing I know of that would open the sheets of copper would be moist heat. Not hot but Luke warm to slowly stretch the sheets apart. But all metal eventually disintegrates. From age. People get greedy and don’t want to share found treasure with anybody else. Maybe they ran out of paper. Maybe they didn’t know how corrosive copper was. They probably thought since it was metal that it would last longer then paper. It’s a shame people are so greedy. It’s better to share with everybody. Greed is the worst sin of all murder is next. And avarice then envy then jealousy then coveting your neighbors spouse. Theft. I could go on and on but everybody gets it I think.
Thank goodness for fast-forward
fantasy is a wonderful thing. it has kept western civilization together for 2000 years. the reason the "copper" scroll was difficult to read is because it was in ancient greek.
He is GOOD !
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Your in the dessert, you see a sandstorm coming, you dont take your water jerrycan into the tent and layon it, you loose it outside, what an adventurer
Interesting, but sad at the same time.
when atom bomb was dropped on japan, the point where the bomb hit first has a nice treasure. this is what our jewish ancestors found and put it in a box and called it the arc of covenent
Hard to hear with the loud background music
Christ was rose from the dead in Jerusalem!
was hehehehe
Jehovah rose his son, Jesus didn't raise himself 😮 what would be the point of Jesus doing the glorification of himself ?
@@driveboy317 Christ rose from the dead. His England might be bit of funny but what he was saying was true. Christ rose from the dead.
@@johnmeredith6890 no he didnt it may have happened in the bible but it definetly didnt happen in reality.
You need to understand the bible
I really feel it is quite amazing he was actually finding the real locations. This in itself is remarkable, and shows just what a superb job he had done translating the copper scrolls. What a brilliant man. It must have been fight after fight with the authorities and church. Lord, what determination this guy had! Full credit. Nothing changes much in life, we’re still trying to get information out on UAPs. 😂. Same old ..dirty dealings ….from all governments.
Omg, TH-cam adverts are coming every 3 minutes in this video
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I only had 1 ad.
@@justinsmith4562 you're lucky I am seeing more ads than the video
Just add the "Adblock for youtube" extension to your browser and you wont see no more adverts, i use it for long time now and always surprised people not knowing about it.
Thanks for the warning! I hate that, too. Other creators get intentionally passed over.
Awesome!
Excellent information and narration...
It proved the scroll was not fiction by finding the sites correctly
Amazing story
Great show
The discovery didn't happened in Jordan in 1947... but in the British Mandate on Palestine that ended in 1948. Jordan was independant since 1946 but was only at the eastern side of the Jordan river in 1947. In 1948 the Jordanian army occupied and took control of what is known as the "west bank", but it wasn't the case during the dead sea scrolls discovery.
Well the bottom line is that it's now Jordan. All the British were ever good was laying claim to places that didn't belong to them and looting it, that's why their museums are full of foreign artifacts.
John Allegro was a fascinating person.
I send this rebuttal to my first text.
I did not know there were any Catholic Priest archaeologists working on the scrolls, I read several accounts where it was all Egyptian and Jewish archaeology specialists and academics. But I’ll assume here that you would know better than I would. The Catholics were strongly influenced by outside forces and it would not matter to them any longer to respect that this was a private find and possibly all to be returned to Jewish authorities eventually. They would have taken possession in order to sell on the open market or make the Jews overpay for getting possession of their own rightful ancient artifacts.
That’s not to say there aren’t still many faithfull righteousness Catholics still but the hierarchy are mostly corrupted since the 1950’s.
Its really sad that the truth is intentionally hidden away ,that all the suffering ,lack of,and problems of the world are intentional. Feeding us lies and poisoning us against each other😢
Lack of???????
@RhondaPuckett-ln1mu of everything when it's supposed to be the opposite ,I'm lucky I work hard but there's alot of people struggling thinking their struggles will get easier or go away like a donkey being led by the hanging carrot
A very thought provoking documentary.
On a side note ….I wonder does Robert Feather, the metallurgist in this documentary play guitar . To my ear ( and eye) he has a striking similarity to the late great George Harrison and not only in appearance but also in his speaking voice.
Hmm…🤔😎
Odyssey ive got a fever.. and the only prescription is more dramatic music and wardrums.
@47:27 it's unfortunate that many aren't vindicated until after their death. 😢
for it to be hidden for 2000 years proves God had a hand in it. Shalom
To date, abt 1,500,000 papyri written in Greek dating from 4th ce. BC-800 AD have been found outside of Greece in the eastern Mediterranean, of which only 80,000 have been published so far...
I always imagine that type of treasure will be accidentally found by just a normal person or purhaps a tourist who went off course and then finds it. I wonder if you would get a reward for finding it. 🤔🤯
Answers are with the very people that stopped him from publishing and discredited his work.
God is one☝Jesus was his prophet.
@@Urtsaf1150 Sorry but you obviously don't know your bible very well. Jesus is part of the Godhead.
God the Father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit. The Gospel of John chapter 1 states very clearly who Jesus is. And I notice you said was. Jesus is. not was.
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
The gospel of John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Reading the rest of John 1 explains who the Word is.
So you see, Jesus is part of the triune God. Yes he was a prophet while here on earth but he was so much much more than that. He was God manifest in the flesh. He came to die for us and take on himself the punishment that we justly deserved. He was buried and then he rose again on the third day and we that have put our trust in Him will likewise rise to new life to spend eternity with our Lord and Saviour. That God took on the form of man and suffered death, even death on a cross so that our relationship with Him be restored is something we cannot really get a grasp of. The love that he showed for his creation is so unmeasurable. All we can do is bow the knee in adoration and praise to Him, the only wise God our saviour. The choice is ours.
The night Templar were digging there for years!
I guarantee the leaders of the Abrahamic religions never lost track of these hidden locations. Any time people locate them, especially when they are this public about it, they are moved.
Im inclined to believe that he was taken advantage of and misdirected because of his excitement and naivety by the first group of people he worked with/for..
what better than to occupy your competitors with the task of clearing their name,
of constantly and unsuccessfully begging for donations or assistance,
Isolating and demoralising them in the process..
I would far sooner believe that those people stole the treasure before publishing the first book, leaving only tantalising scraps for him to find..
Humanity has a capacity for beautiful and awful things, and most often it is the latter that most engage in.
Never underestimate humanity's capacity for envy and greed.. History proves time and again that this is what most humans excels at.
I have similar thinking. They discredited and blocked him for a very long time, long enough for the Catholic Church to search for the treasure based on his translation. Then when search was completed, they publish their own translation, with errors and claim the copper scroll treasure is fake. As Allegro said, no one would invest in such a labourous to transcribe with 3 to 4 different scribes, to such a difficult medium.
I also think that even if Allegro had received permission to search the caverns under the dome of the rock it would be doubtful and secrets remain there, I'm sure it's been searched over.
“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole but loses his own soul!”
“The Word of God is more precious than fine gold!”
I pray he took time with the scroll of Isaiah! That is where the real gold is buried!
king hussien dug inside the mount of the temple and found the treasure hence saudi arabia has soo much gold, imagine 70 ton of gold?
He found roman silver coins at each place... might think the Roman's got it. Occoms razor
The contant tempo of music is really not necessary, I dont know why they did that.
seems interesting but the background music is to much....
Let me guess: he didnt find it.
because it is all fake , just made by Britain to give basis for the creation of israhell the fake state
Who can count the tears of the innocent souls lost.
God has.
Could it be that the treasures were found from the results of Allegro’s research ? The treasure could be hidden behind deliberate cave ins in the caves identified by the team and left to be collected at a later date. The expeditions could have been infiltrated by informants who would keep tabs on the expeditions site work and could be intercepted if they tried to investigate further. There was enough time from the transcription of the scroll to when Allegro set off on his hunt to do the needful cover up.
The catholics have some of the best linguists available as do the Some of the Lutherans and Anglicans. The ones I know are extremely honest men and deal faithfully with these texts,knowing their importance to the church and to God. When dealing with the ancient texts they are usually unponted. That is they dont have the vowels inserted so you must really know your subject and what is being looked at and translated.
Here's another potential twist in the tale; In the Da Vinci code all the original Templars were of Jewish origin; If this is accurate, could it be that the founding of the Templars and their digging within the Temple Mount and other sites were connected to the information contained within the Copper Scroll?
Jewish origin where did you get your information
@@teresawest5602 Not the most reliable of sources I will admit, but there are those who make those claims: "The Knights Templar initially arrived in the Holy Land on a mission to reclaim some treasure that they believed was rightfully theirs. According to the modern Templar historians, Tim Wallace-Murphy and Christopher Knight, the knights who banded together as the Knights Templar were part of a wave of European royalty descended from Jewish Elders that had fled the Holy Land around 70 AD, when it was invaded by the Romans." As to the veracity of this claim, I have no clue but the claim is out there although probably far-fetched...
I really feel it is quite amazing he was actually finding the real locations. This in itself is remarkable, and shows just what a superb job he had done translating the copper scrolls. What a brilliant man. It must have been fight after fight with the authorities and church. Lord, what determination this guy had! Full credit. Nothing changes much in life, we’re still trying to get information out on UAPs. 😂. Same old crap from all governments.
33:18 can someone help me here, while he is referring to vandals. Previous explorers??
The Vandals were a Germanic people who were first reported in the written records as inhabitants of what is now Poland, during the period of the Roman empire.
When I hear stories like this, I have to wonder what is the truth from anything that has been written in our past about that era. The Church started to practice religion, and not Christian beliefs. All the unnecessary pomp and circumstance was a covering for their duplicitous beliefs. They didn't want anything that would put a crimp in their heretical religious beliefs. Jesus was the Christ, and didn't need mans religious practices to spread the truth. Some Churches today put more emphasis on religion over Christ like behavior, that any man at any time could do. The point is, anything that is outside their orthodoxy was disinformation and fake news. Why does that sound familiar?
Christ was antiestablishment & his followers were self styled as the people of the way ♥️
What I think is very scary is the way Christian Evangelicals treat Donald Trump like he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. He is a false prophet, and he is most certainly not a Christian. I am especially disgusted that even though Donald Trump tried to overthrow the US Government on January 6, 2021 and actually encouraged the insurrectionists to kill Vice President Mike Pence because Pence refused to obey an illegal order (to refuse to certify the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election, Joe Biden), he was allowed to run for President in 2024.
The only good news is Christ persisted.
The thing is stories that are passed down usually have many versions. And when you translate from one language to another you also miss some of the meaning. So it's very difficult to know what was originally written down on scrolls and then what was transferred to Latin then English. Which words are best for the translation,it's always up for debate.
Rather the church voted in heretical beliefs that contradict thousands of years of messengers sent to guide mankind and not just the Jews. They voted in the trinity a heretical blasphemous belief that totally contradicts the message given to Jesus Christ عليه السلام as preached in the first 2 centuries after he was raised to heaven. The closest version of Christianity to the truth was Unitarian although they still believed in abandoning the Jewish Halaqa law which Jesus عليه السلام never preached rather he was given the command to abrogate only a few laws making some things previously forbidden lawful otherwise circumcision was still obligated and Pork totally forbidden and unclean but Alas the church followed Paul’s blasphemous teachings…
If any 1 reached no one can touch single dust of it
The three individuals who transcribed their portions of the text could have used the information that they had for their own part to hunt and take the treasure.
Any one ever think that there might be 2 or more maps. Idk but some kt like the guy who made the first photo? probably figure out how to unroll the copper?
Why don't you guys say what the scrolls say instead of all this talk about the scroll.
exactly barbara, i think it said directions only? btw where u from barbara cutie? im from uk london hi hi
Good documentary, totally spoiled by the inane and insane music!!
The treasures were there but were long stolen.....
I actually have a copper scroll. i refuse to share with anyone but they can visit me at a cafe and read it for the price of £5000, no less.
The golden ark of the covenant also was carefully hidden before the Roman Army destroyed the Temple. I trust that God persuaded the Jews to hide it and that angels continue to guard it!
“Take my discipline instead of silver, And knowledge rather than the finest gold, for wisdom is better than corals; All other desirable things cannot compare to it.” -Proverbs 8: 10,11
The treasure is in God’s Word.
What about first getting all the treasure out of all the places and then re selling the story through media.
I didn’t know that the copper scroll described where to find the temples treasures…. Damm it…. Has anyone tried to find it???😮
Part of the treasure was taken by the romans and emperpr Titus had the gold displayed in his triumohant welcome parade, returning to Rome from his campaign in the holy land. The treasure pieces can be seen today carved in the marble titus arch where thry are carried by roman soldiers in the parade. This was real not a made up story. The romans only found the largest pieces though such as the solid gold menorah and solid gold table the smaller pieces and documents were likely hidden away just like the copper scroll indicates and it must have been an enormous quantity.
Any money says if you heated it up to a certain temperature it would unfold.
It was folded right?? So it has to unfold without falling apart..
You just need super controlled heat and slowly try higher and higher temperature until you get it moving.
Not folded . Rolled scrolls are never folded. They are only rolled . Time makes everything brittle even tin the desert.😊
8:00 when God kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden, they didn't go live in a cave. Angels by the command of Lord God, and also fallen angels have been giving mankind technology and engineering inspirations from the get-go.
the I think was able to unroll, I think it fits with the prophessy. Bible said that knowledge would increase as we get closer to the end of this game.
Alright then.
People seem to lose their sense of proportion when treasure and Jesus are mentioned. Steady on everyone. Yes to see the knowledge and intellect required in deciphering the script,says so much about humankind, but there’s no great mystery in the words.
your treasure is in heaven. of course.
btw, its said wrong. they are much older than Crist.
Crist who's that????? Don't you mean Christ
The music tho, stop it!
"greatest treasure" from avarge temple of very small kingdom on fringe of roman empire.
How would they name treausure of Attila who ploundered half of roman empire, tomb of chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang or Tutankhamun's Tomb?
If one wants to have ones religious sect remembered produce a "mysterious" (Billy the Mountain) copper scroll listing a great treasure and one will be remembered for eons by the wild eyed treasure seekers.
And this is a surprise to you how, exactly?
@@mariakelly90210 Where in my comment did I feign or suggest surprise.
its on Oak Island
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The only treasure on Oak island is the amount of money those on Oak island have scammed with their never ending series I agree lol.
That is such a good hoax. Gotta give them some credit for that one.
Aaaand and it's a , piece of wood
@@russe19642 or a military button.
Curious to know what inside it and what it say
They don't really want to know, it would change things.
Music is too loud.
The cloth didn't destroyed after 2000 years? The cloth will last 2000 years? If yes....its wonderful
All of it there even seeds from thousands of years because dead sea derived from the name that it's too salty that any bacteria can't live so every there will be preserved especially in the mountain in the dessert..
10 seconds, before giving it thumbs down. Interesting topic to intellegently explore, but ten seconds of this quality of presentation screamed out swill for the masses.
The treasure is real and ended up in the Vatican. To find out how, you need to read Dr Barbara Thiering.
This video is about Allegro rather than the scroll. I was expecting to learn about the scroll given the title of this video. What a waste of time!!!
Agreed it sucks ass.
Thanks for saving my time
I've read a couple English translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of all that I read, the copper scroll was the most difficult to get through. Basically it just mentioned locations and what was at the locations regarding the treasure. This video was more interesting than what I recall reading in that scroll.
So 500 years for Jesus Christ the copper plate of the Book of Mormon
Was a possibility then and you don’t know that copper was used in that way
Shocking
Let us don't worry.
Thousands years from now, other people will be investigating us back to back 😂😂😂😂😂
What year did king Hussein visit the cave? I've googled but can't find anything
He is not a bedoiun to shepherd sheeps and it's the jews land before.
The treasure is not lost at all it is right where they hid it and it will stay there until the fourth temple is built.
Third
@ no the third will be destroyed like the other two. The fourth will be built by the Lord and that treasure is his dowry which will be used to pay for it or used in the construction of it.
no the third will be destroyed like the first two. The fourth will be built during the lords reign and his dowry will be used in the constitution of it.
Remembered hearing about this so I did a search . This is a copy and paste.
Muslim religious authorities are concluding a clandestine eight-month dig on the Temple Mount that is intended to erase traces of the Jewish Temple's Altar, Temple activists charge. The digs have been taking place under the Dome of the Chain, believed to have been built over 1300 years ago.
'Hebrew is Greek' , by Josef Ezekiel Yahuda
From what I recall reading an English translation of the War scroll from the Dead Sea, the community was writing about getting prepared for the final battle between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. Part of the preparation involved making many silver trumpets and shields. None of that was found either.