Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered about 80 new pieces of ancient writings known as Dead Sea Scrolls in a desert cave south of Jerusalem. The writings are the first new scrolls to be found in 60 years. The writings are religious in nature. They have lines written in Greek. They are believed to have been hidden during a Jewish revolt against the Romans nearly 1,900 years ago. The Israel Antiquities Authority says, based on the writing style, they likely come from the first century. The new discovery adds to a larger group of Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish writings first found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of the scrolls date to over two thousand years ago. They include the earliest known copies of biblical writings and documents explaining the beliefs of a little understood Jewish group.