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Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls)

Caves above the Dead Sea where roughly 900 Jewish manuscripts - including the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible - were found sealed in jars, offering a direct window onto Second Temple-era Judaism.

Dated events and their evidence

• 150 BCE mainstream
  earliest scrolls copied (approximate range to 70 CE) source
• 1947 CE mainstream
  first scrolls discovered by a Bedouin shepherd source

Where

31.7403° N, 35.4592° E

Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dead-Sea-Scrolls
• https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-scrolls/discovery-sites

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