It was built by Mark Lanier, who has taught Sunday school at Champion Forest Baptist Church for more than 20 years, and is part of his 35-acre estate.

The LTL displays Christian artifacts such as handwritten letters by author C. S. Lewis, artwork from his Chronicles of Narnia book series, two copies of the original 1611 King James Version Bible and a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The LTL specializes in Archaeology, Biblical studies, church history, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Egyptology, Linguistics, and Theology.

[5][4] The LTL has acquired numerous private collections from many accomplished scholars, including David Bivin, Chaim Cohen,[6] Alan Crown,[7] Trude Dothan, Peter Flint, Florentino Garcia-Martinez, Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, William W. Hallo, Larry Hurtado, Robert Lindsey, Abraham Malamat,[8] Carol and Eric Meyers, David Owen, Randall Price,[9] Alan Segal, and Emanuel Tov.

It was excavated in April 1966 by Dr. Solomon H. Steckoll within one of the buildings on the main plateau of the Qumran site at the edge of the Dead Sea.

[16] Pottery, lamps, vases, chalices, serving jugs, and numerous figurines from the ancient world line the halls of the LTL.

Archeologists and scholars use these artifacts, with dates ranging from 2000 BCE to 5 CE, to glean valuable information about ancient cultures.

The collection features a 9-page autograph manuscript of Lewis’s famous address in 1939 after the outbreak of World War II, now known as “Learning in War-Time”.