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NEW= RESEARCH EXPLORES KEY BIBLICAL MYSTERY
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
In today’s newsletter we= find new clues in an all-important biblical mystery, see a Greenland shark way south in the Caribbean, learn stingrays can speak =2E=2E=2E and discover living root bridges can = be glorious=2E Plus, a pioneering astronomer gets a= new generation’s help on t= he search for life in space=2E
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The three cousins were looking for a lost goat=2E Instead, they stumbled u= pon a 2,000-year-old treasure trove of Biblical texts in caves near the Dea= d Sea, including the oldest written version of the Ten Commandments=2E
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Since the 1946 blockbuster find, scholars have shifted ideas about the = writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include all but one of the books of = the Hebrew canon (Christian Old Testament)=2E At first, most scholars thoug= ht reclusive monks living nearby wrote them, but later researchers suggest = at least some texts were spirited to the caves from Jerusalem before Romans= destroyed the great temple in A=2ED=2E 70=2E

New testing shows the= scrolls may have been written over a 275- to 465-year period, Nat Geo repo= rts=2E

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PHOTOGRAPH BY RAFAEL= BEN-ARI, ALAMY


This mikveh (or ritual bathing pool), uncovered in the Qumran settlement, = is believed by some to be evidence that the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls= were from a reclusive breakaway order known as the Essenes=2E Pictured at = top, a Dominican priest reconstructs the text of a fragment of the Great Ps= alms Scroll at the French =C3=89cole Biblique in Jerusalem=2E Read more=2E

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Mysterious Arctic shark foun= d thousands of miles south in the Caribbean=2E (Pictured abo= ve, a Greenland shark)
= 75 years ago this month, this deadly partition changed the world
Indonesia’s giant capital city i= s sinking=2E Can it be saved?
The end of the Earth’s ‘wicke= dest city’
= The effect of multiple COVID-19 infections
A nation’s favorite vacation site—now a mas= sive refugee camp, too

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Are we alone in the universe? It’s a qu= estion we’ve been asking for millennia=2E Now, we’re on the c= usp of learning the answer=2E Frank Drake (pictured above)—one of the most vocal (and brilliant= ) askers—has spent six decades inspiring others to join him in this = quest=2E Now, a new generation of scientists is carrying his work forward, = our Overheard podca= st discovers=2E They’re finally being taken seriously, and they&= #x2019;re about to change the way we think about our place in the cosmos=2E=

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PHOTOGRAPH BY PRASEN= JEET YADAV, @PRASEN=2EYADAV<= /span>
‘A fairy tale’: That’s wh= at Nat Geo Explorer Pras= enjeet Yadav calls these living root bridges=2E He photographe= d 30 over the course of a year=2E Found in the Khasi Hills of northeast Ind= ia, these sturdy pedestrian bridges are created by local tribes using the r= oots of a Ficus elastica, or rubber fig, tree=2E These = wonders of bioengineering are more suitable than concrete bridges, Yadav sa= ys, because they can withstand constant rains, landslides, earthquakes, and= floods=2E
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Sustainability scientist and engineer, Nat Geo Explorer

FUTURE FORWARD
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PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHNNY= GASKELL
What does the stingray say? Dog goes woof, cat= goes meow=2E How about the stingray? Until recently, scientists thought th= e flat fish had nothing to say=2E But a recent video captures two species m= aking striking click sounds=2E “I dive a lot with some other species= of rays, and now I’m second guessing myself=2E Could I have missed = this?” one marine ecologist says to Nat Geo=2E To hear them benea= th the water, listen here=2E (Pictured above, a cowtail s= tingray along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef=2E)
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Today’s newsletter was edited and curated by David = Beard, Heather Kim, and Monica Williams=2E Miss yesterday’s newslett= er? Find it here=2E Write to us at <= em style=3D"">david=2Ebeard@natgeo=2Ecom=2E Have a = good week ahead!
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