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IBA - A scroll of the Ten Commandments goes on display
1. Wide pan from exhibition sign to Israeli conservator Tania Treiger and colleague about to unwrap a piece of the ten commandments Dead Sea Scroll
2. Mid tilt up conservator taking wrapping off scroll with ten commandments
3. Close-up...
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For a short time, the only copy on parchment of the Ten Commandments is going on display in New York. The scroll is some 2,000 years old.
HEADLINE: First Person: Ten Commandments unraveled
CAPTION: For a short time, the only copy on parchment of the Ten Commandments is going on display in New York. The scroll is some 2,000 years old. (Dec. 15)
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