1. Ezra 6:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why was the document found on a scroll?

Ezra 6:2 (ESV)

2 And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.

The document is found written on a scroll since official documents in Persian Empire were written in Aramaic on parchment.1