Can You Visit Qumran Caves?
This Was a Spectacular Place to Visit. Learn About the History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and See the Caves Where They Were Discovered. We Were Able to Hike to...
This was a spectacular place to visit. Learn about the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls and see the caves where they were discovered. We were able to hike to one of the caves and go inside.
Can you visit the Dead Sea Scrolls?
A fragment of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls is laid out at a laboratory in Jerusalem. More than 60 years after their discovery, 5,000 images of the ancient scrolls are now online. This week, an ancient and largely inaccessible treasure was opened to everyone.
Where is modern day Qumran?
The site of Khirbet Qumran (a modern Arabic name) is located in the West Bank, near the northern edge of the Dead Sea, and is the place where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 11 nearby caves 70 years ago.
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