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Multi-periodSite Name: Qumran
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 0.141 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Jericho  Nearest Village: Kibuts Kalya
Latitude: 31.741742N  Longitude: 35.459596E
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Qumran submitted by SolarMegalith : Entrance to the cave where Dead Sea Scrolls were found between 1947 and 1956 (photo taken on April 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)
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From motist: the Qumran Caves are a series of caves, some natural, some artificial, which can be found around the archaeological site of Qumran. It is in a number of these caves that the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were found. The limestone cliffs above Qumran contain numerous caves that have been used over the millennia. The first traces of occupation are from the Chalcolithic period up to the Arab period. The artificial caves relate to the period of the settlement at Qumran and were cut into the marl bluffs of the terrace on which Qumran sits.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of about 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus. These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE and 70 CE. The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.
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Qumran submitted by SolarMegalith : Refectory in ruins of Qumran (photo taken on April 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Qumran submitted by SolarMegalith : Ruins of Qumran seen from the entrance to the archaeological park. After Jewish rebellion against Rome in 70-73 AD a Roman garrison was established in Qumran (photo taken on April 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Qumran submitted by SolarMegalith : Remains of a pottery kiln located near the acqueduct (photo taken on April 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Qumran submitted by SolarMegalith : Pottery workshop in ruins of Qumran (photo taken on April 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Qumran submitted by motist : Qumran Seal made of carnelian stone found in Cave 12. Image credit: Casey L. Olson / Oren Gutfeld.

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Qumran submitted by motist : Qumran A piece of parchment to be processed for writing, found rolled up in a jug. Image credit: Casey L. Olson / Oren Gutfeld.

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Qumran submitted by motist : Qumran Cloth used for wrapping scrolls. Image credit: Casey L. Olson / Oren Gutfeld

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Qumran submitted by motist : Qumran Fragments of jars that contained scrolls. Image credit: Casey L. Olson / Oren Gutfeld

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Qumran submitted by motist : Qumran Fault cliff and entrance to Cave 12. Image credit: Casey L. Olson / Oren Gutfeld

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Qumran submitted by SolarMegalith : Acqueduct in Qumran on the left (photo taken on April 2011).

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Qumran Cave 12: New Dead Sea Scrolls Cave Discovered by motist on Thursday, 09 March 2017
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Archaeologists working near Qumran in Israel have found a cave that previously contained Dead Sea scrolls. They now suggest ‘the cave should be numbered as Cave 12, along with the 11 caves previously known to have housed the famous manuscripts.
The surprising discovery was made by an international team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and Liberty University in Virginia, the United States.

“This exciting excavation is the closest we’ve come to discovering new Dead Sea scrolls in 60 years,” said Hebrew University archaeologist Oren Gutfeld, director of the excavation.

“Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave.”

“Finding this additional scroll cave means we can no longer be certain that the original locations (Caves 1 through 11) attributed to the Dead Sea scrolls that reached the market via the Bedouins are accurate.”

Numerous storage jars and lids from the Second Temple period were found hidden in niches along the walls of Cave 12 and deep inside a long tunnel at its rear.

The jars were all broken and their contents removed, and the discovery towards the end of the excavation of a pair of iron pickaxe heads from the 1950s (stored within the tunnel for later use) proves the cave was looted.

The finds from Cave 12 include not only the storage jars, which held the scrolls, but also fragments of scroll wrappings, a string that tied the scrolls, and a piece of worked leather that was a part of a scroll.

“Although no scroll was found, and instead we ‘only’ found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen,” Dr. Gutfeld said.

“The findings include the jars in which the scrolls and their covering were hidden, a leather strap for binding the scroll, a cloth that wrapped the scrolls, tendons and pieces of skin connecting fragments, and more.”

Like Cave 8, in which scroll jars but no scrolls were found, Cave 12 will receive the designation Q12 (the Q=Qumran standing in front of the number to indicate no scrolls were found).
The finding of pottery and of numerous flint blades, arrowheads, and a decorated stamp seal made of carnelian, a semi-precious stone, also revealed that the cave was used in the Chalcolithic and the Neolithic periods.

“The important discovery of another scroll cave attests to the fact that a lot of work remains to be done in the Judean Desert and finds of huge importance are still waiting to be discovered,” said Israel Hasson, Director-General of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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Re: Qumran Caves & the Dead sea Scrolls by KeriKubota on Thursday, 15 January 2015
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Google published the Old Ten Commandments from the Dead Sea Scroll online after the partnership launched with the Israel Museum. The museum experienced disapproval for tight access they gave before the partnership. Now, worldwide admittance to the files is being provided on the internet. Source of article: Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls providing worldwide access
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Re: Qumran Caves & the Dead sea Scrolls by motist on Wednesday, 14 July 2010
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls

http://home.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/deadsea.htm

http://jewishchristianlit.com/Resources/Texts/dss.html

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