View Inside Dead Sea Scrolls Cave US. The dead sea scrolls consist of the remains of 900 manuscripts found in 12 caves located near qumran. The pieces are small and the writing on them is too faded to make out without advanced analysis.
In Photos New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed Live Science from cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net When teenagers stumbled upon the scrolls while exploring jagged caves in the judean desert in the late 1940s. The first dead sea scrolls were found in this cave, later called cave 1. The pieces are small and the writing on them is too faded to make out without advanced analysis.
At this stage the archaeologists aren't even sure if.
The cave lies on the cliffs west of qumran, near the northwestern shore of the dead sea. Substantial cleanup and reformatting may be needed. The researchers said they believe these items were used to. Since then, archaeologists have found 11 qumran caves that they have extensively excavated in search of the precious scrolls that date back more than 2.
