Scientists propose answer to 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls calendar mystery
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Researchers say they may have solved a long-running mystery about the Dead Sea Scrolls by proposing that the Qumran sect genuinely used its distinctive 364-day calendar. Its perfectly ordered 52-week system kept holidays on fixed weekdays, but the calendar was shorter than the true solar year and so slowly drifted out of sync with the seasons.
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