Qumran Caves
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The Qumran Caves are a series of caves, both natural and artificial, found around the archaeological site of Qumran in the Judaean Desert. It is in these caves that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovere
Cave 4Q with other caves in the background
Scrolls in situ
Qumran pottery
Caves 4Qa right & 10Q left of upper center, seen from Wadi Qumran to the south
Dead Sea Scrolls
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, which mostly consist of the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish biblical manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of ten years,
Qumran Caves
…are a series of caves, both natural and artificial, found around the archaeological site of Qumran in the Judaean Desert. It is in these caves that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Israel Nature and Parks Authority took over the site following the end of the 1967 war, when Israel occupied the West Bank and seized…
Caves at Qumran
A view of the Dead Sea from a cave at Qumran in which some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
The Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah.