{"id":98880863,"date":"2011-12-19T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/nyc-s-discovery-times-square-displaying-ancient-dead-sea-scrolls\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:22:35","slug":"nyc-s-discovery-times-square-displaying-ancient-dead-sea-scrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/nyc-s-discovery-times-square-displaying-ancient-dead-sea-scrolls\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s Discovery Times Square Displaying Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 10 days, Times Square will be home to some of the rarest and most talked about artifacts in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through January 2, 2012, the Discovery Times Square exhibition space will play host to portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old documents that were first discovered back in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ancient scrolls in New York this week feature the oldest known recording of the Ten Commandments, sacred rules that are central to the Judeo-Christian faiths.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The unique exhibit marks the single largest collection of biblical artifacts ever put on display outside of Israel, according the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/ten-commandments-scroll-display-york-city-discovery-times-square-exhibition-space-article-1.992430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NY Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snorpey\/3317497657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">snorpey <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 10 days, Times Square will be home to some of the rarest and most talked about artifacts in recorded history. &nbsp; Through January 2, 2012, the Discovery Times Square exhibition space will play host to portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old documents that were first discovered back in 1952. &nbsp; The ancient scrolls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897720,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880863\/revisions\/98897720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}