1947 excavation of the The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 981 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. They were found inside caves about a mile inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea

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1947 excavation of the The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 981 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. They were found inside caves about a mile inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea

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Keywords: archaeology, archival, archive, bible, dead, excavation, historical, history, israel, judaism, sacred, scrolls, sea, text