manuscripts in scrolls stored in these jars. Among the cache of scrolls that we now call the Dead Sea Scrolls, are three distinct types of material. First, we have a collection of copies of the ...

In the rocky cliffs of Wadi Qumran, near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, archaeologists from ... removing the scrolls. Jars that once held scrolls were broken open, their contents removed.

In 1946 or 1947, a Bedouin goatherd found a number of ancient texts in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea and ... broken storage jars of the sort that sometimes contained scrolls, multiple pieces ...