Qumran

The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Qumran site was discovered in 1946 by a Bedouin boy, who went to find a lost goat, but instead found a cave in which clay pots were hidden. In

these pots, a treasure of manuscripts was discovered. This discovery led to the discovery of over 700 additional manuscripts in this area.

The first person to realize the importance of these scrolls was professor Eleazar Liffa Sukenik of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who bought three

of the original seven scrolls. The rest of the scrolls were smuggled to the US by a Christian priest, and were then bought in 1954 by Sukenik's son,

Yigal Yadin, and returned to Israel.

Three pictures take from short movie before entering Qumran

Qumran to the Dead Sea

Herd of Camels