Are there people with vested interests in keeping the scrolls concealed deliberately blocking the investigation of the building?
A. It certainly feels that way. We fully understand the need to move with caution and to have full respect for this unique building, but the there may be more to it that that. Early in 1998 we brought Professor James Charlesworth to Rosslyn. He is head of the Dead Sea Scrolls project at Princetown University and later in that year he also became the Albright Professor of Archaeology in Jerusalem. Prof. Charlesworth once studied at Edinburgh University and he is well connected to leading scholars there. He held two meetings with different trustees of Rosslyn and he was invited to prepare a plan for the excavation of Rosslyn, involving a number of leading academics. We are given to understand that a proposal was submitted some months later, but we are unaware of any further outcome. It may be that there is no movement on the matter, or an excavation is being conducted secretly; as suggested by the trusts letter to ourselves.
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