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Dana Murray
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published on 30 June 2015
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Qumran was mainly occupied during the Greco-Roman period (c. 150 BCE-68 CE) by a community generally identified as the Essenes, a religious sect, which lived in isolation in this region west of the Dead Sea. The cave and a series of scrolls were discovered in 1947 CE by a Palestinian shepherd called Mohammad al-Theeb, gaining the site international attention. The scrolls would become known as the "Dead Sea Scrolls," and the cave was excavated in 1949 CE by a joint expedition from the Jordan Department of Antiquities, the Palestinian Archaeological Museum and the école Biblique Francaise.

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Dana Murray
PhD student with interest in the art, architecture, and religion of ancient Greece and the Near East.

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Murray, D. (2015, June 30). Qumram Caves. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/3981/qumram-caves/

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