6000 year old body displayed in museum

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1. Wide shot of museum exhibition
2. Mid shot of woman walking past skeleton (replica) in case
3. Pan of skeleton
4. Mid shot of women talking to mid shot of skeleton
5. Close up of skull
6. Close up of bony hand
7. Pan of fringe of shawl
8. Mid shot of school party listening to teacher talk about the discovery
9. Close up of skeleton to school girls listening to teacher
10. Close up of various bones and skull
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Osnat Misch-Brandl, exhibit curator:
“Such a burial assemblage from 6000 years old Halophyte period is the first one found in the world. The pieces, a bowl, an old shroud, a sash, kilt, arrow heads and even leather sandals which are unique, and we don’t, we never found them before.”
12. Close up of skull
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Osnat Misch-Brandl, exhibit curator:
“The person is a very very, is a noble person, he is a very important person in society, maybe a chief in his community, and he was probably a rich person who could afford such luxury items.”
14. Mid shot of line of mummies with curator carrying box passed them
15. Close up of various bones (original)
16. Wide shot of curator carrying skull in glass cabinet
17. Wide shot of curator switching off the light and bolting the door shut

STORYLINE:

A 6-thousand years old skeleton found in a cave in the parched cliffs above the Dead Sea may have been that of a nobleman, warrior, hunter or religious leader, a museum curator said on Thursday.

A replica of the curled-up skeleton, discovered a decade ago, along with the man’s real sandals, hunting bow and kilt went on display this week at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum.

Exhibit curator Osnat Misch-Brandl said: “Such a burial assemblage from 6000 years old Halophyte period is the first one found in the world.”

Research on the well-preserved skeleton has offered a glimpse into ancient hunting and cloth-making techniques of the area’s ancient people, but the man is still largely a mystery.

The museum has not put the real skeleton on display because Jewish religious law forbids members of the traditional priestly class – many with the last name Cohen, Hebrew for priest – from contact with dead bodies, and displaying it would mean that some Jews would not be able to visit the exhibit.

That religious command is leftover from the days when Jewish Temples were standing in Jerusalem, 20 centuries ago, and priests conducting religious ceremonies took special care not to come in contact with dead bodies, which would render them ritually impure.

The real skeleton is packed away in a storage room, its vertebrae and other pieces of bone wrapped in cardboard boxes.

The ancient skeleton was found in 1993 in a cave in the Judean desert, where an arid climate preserved bits of the man’s skin and cartilage.

Entombed with the man were a large flaxen burial cloth and a broken wooden bow, the first [...]

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