Christmas Eve 2010 was the day that the new Qumran Science Center website was launched in a collaborative endeavor to study in a holistic way--hence trans-disciplinary research--Qumran's history, exegesis, architecture, archaeology and biological remains and their decay with the aid of available analytical techniques in the domains of the Humanities, Social and exact Physical Sciences.
The new Center comprises an overview of present, future as well as past research between the Hebrew University and every scholar on earth who has collaborated, continues or wishes to collaborate in the future.
Qumran is important because it is our sole monotheistic backbone of three religions that comprise two-thirds of the World's population. This treasure of cultural heritage was found between 1947-1956 at Qumran near the Dead Sea and consists of biblical, apocryphal and sectarian Jewish manuscripts of about 900 scrolls written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek on parchment and papyrus.