John M. Allegro

There's another source that talks about how profitable it was.

um this site was and in fact one of the Dead Sea Scrolls one of the only ones of all the ones that were discovered in late 1940s the only one that's actually ever been transcribed and translated by British scholar John Allegro no longer with us unfortunately he died in his early 60s an early death he records the fact that this treasure, that this copper scroll actually records treasure found in the environs.

In modern day terms, that treasure has a value of between just over two billion and three billion pounds.

And In fact, it's not surprising that that should.

They've roasted in the sun, dug holes until their hands bled, and spent their entire life savings chasing the whispers of dead priests.

Now, a fellow named John Marco Allegro, one of the original scholars who worked on the scroll, became utterly and completely obsessed with it.

He spent years wandering the desert, turning over every stone, convinced he was just one shovel strike away from uncovering the greatest hoard in human history.

He found nothing, not a single coin.

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good.Did you ever get into any of John Marco Allegro's stuff?

I'm a- I'm aware of The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.

Um, but there's, there's ...

Is the treasure real, or is it a fabulous kind of fairy story?

The British scholar John Allegro was determined to get to the truth.

It was a quest that would cost him nearly everything.

He was in the wilderness, literally in the wilderness.

But nothing would stop him in his search.

John Allegro was always up for an adventure.

That adventure would change his life forever.

This is the story of John Allegro's quest to unravel the mysteries of the Copper Dead Sea Scroll.

They've roasted in the sun, dug holes until their hands bled, and spent their entire life savings chasing the whispers of dead priests.

Now a fellow named John Marco Allegro, one of the original scholars who worked on the scroll, became utterly and completely obsessed with it.

He spent years wandering the desert, turning over every stone, convinced he was just one shovel strike away from uncovering the greatest hoard in human history.

He found nothing.

Yeah.

And you have you have John Allegro.

And he was the he was the researcher, one of three, I believe, tasked with deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls when they were found.

And like, you got to think, I think I don't know if it was the Vatican that tasked these people or who tasked them.

The mushroom caps look like crackers, you know, so it's it makes a lot of sense.

And the arguments are like, you know, there's there's so much debate and conjecture around these.

But, you know, all of when when John Allegro came out with this, like his career was, you know, it's absolutely destroyed, like his his entire life.

They

They've roasted in the sun, dug holes until their hands bled, and spent their entire life savings chasing the whispers of dead priests.

Now, a fellow named John Marco Allegro, one of the original scholars who worked on the scroll, became utterly and completely obsessed with it.

He spent years wandering the desert, turning over every stone, convinced he was just one shovel strike away from uncovering the greatest hoard in human history.

He found nothing, not a single coin.