TY - JOUR A1 - Rabin, Ira A1 - Hahn, Oliver T1 - Dead Sea scrolls exhibitions around the world: reasons for concern JF - Restaurator : international journal for the preservation of library and archival material N2 - The Dead Sea Scrolls that miraculously survived for over two thousand years suffered considerable damage due to various post-dicovery interventions. Today they are subjected to frequent travelling exhibitions. The current work collates the published information on exhibitions and conservational treatments with the results of the analytic studies of the skin-based material of the scrolls conducted since their discovery. The examination of the properties of the scrolls proves that frequent travel, exhibitons and the associated handling induce collagen deterioration that is covered up by the absence of a proper monitoring program. KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - Deterioration KW - Collagen KW - Conservation science PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/res-2012-0005 SN - 0034-5806 SN - 1865-8431 VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 101 EP - 121 PB - Saur CY - München AN - OPUS4-26306 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -