Coffin Conversations - by dementia

An international team of biblical scholars learned recently that the sect thought to have been responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Essenes, became extinct because they were too modest about their toilet habits. According to a report in London’s Independent, the researchers found evidence of heavy fecal bacteria in a secluded area and deduced from the scrolls that the Essenes rejected defecating in the open, which would have allowed sunlight to kill the bacteria.