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Courtesy Yigael Yadin
Exercising surgical delicacy, Joseph Shenhav and Ruth Yekutiel of the Israel Museum assemble a jigsaw puzzle of damaged fragments from the Temple Scroll. These fragments were part of a “wad,” a decayed portion of the scroll that had become separated from the main scroll during its storage in a shoebox in the period before its recovery by Yigael Yadin.