Israel presented fragments of a biblical scroll, which is about 2,000 years old, AFP reported.

The artifacts were unearthed during excavations in the Judean Desert, which covers parts of southern Israel and the occupied West Bank. 

At the site known as the Cave of Horror, archaeologists have unearthed fragments of a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the first such find since the early 1960s.

According to Oren Ableman, curator of the Israel Antiquities Authority, parts of the same scroll from the Book of the Twelve Lesser Prophets were first discovered in the Cave of Horror by Bedouins in the 1950s.

The Cave of Horror got its name from the many skeletons found inside it.

Most of the text is written in ancient Greek, which was widely used at the time.