Qumran is a small settlement on the west shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby. The archaeology of this settlement sheds light on the Jewish community that lived here and how ...

Legally, all the Scrolls became the Department's property on discovery; it could later dispose of the antiquities as it wished. The original finding of Cave One at Qumran, near the Dead Sea ...

So the story goes that he heard a crack in one, went in to investigate and found a ceramic pot ... Dead Sea Scrolls. Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been found at ...

Introduction Half a century has now passed since a bedouin shepherd discovered a long-hidden cache of scrolls in a cave in cliffs ... line between the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and Christianity ...