Fresh search for Dead Sea scrolls From: The Independent - London | Date: December 19, 1995| Author: PATRICK COCKBURN Qumran | Copyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

PATRICK COCKBURN

Qumran

In a deep ravine beside the ruins of the 2,000-year-old settlement of Qumran, Israeli archaeologists yesterday started excavating three caves in the hope of finding more fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls. It is the first significant dig at the site since 1956 when the last of 11 caves containing ancient biblical and non-biblical documents was discovered by bedouin who saw a bat fly into a crevice in a cliff face.

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