He believes, rather, that Jews fleeing the Roman rampage hurriedly stuffed the documents into the Qumran caves for safekeeping. After digging at the site for ten years, he also believes that ...

Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been found at Qumran. And new discoveries are expected even now. Among the caves were found, then, thousand of fragments of ...

Ilit Ofri Cohen, head of laboratory of the Israel Antiquities Authority, stood and took readings of the light in the room ...

(credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority) In 1949, archaeologists discovered several leather tefillin cases in a cave near Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found.