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2017 Bethlehem Best of Israel Tour

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  • The Qumran Caves are a series of caves, some natural, some artificial, found around the archaeological site of Qumran in the Judaean Desert of the West Bank. It is in a number of these caves that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The caves are recognized in Israel as a National Heritage Site. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves">Wikipedia</a>)
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  • The cave where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.<br><br>

"In early 1947, a Bedouin boy of the Ta'amireh tribe, Muhammid Ahmed el-Hamed called edh-Dhib (the wolf), found a cave after searching for a lost animal. He stumbled onto the first cave containing scrolls from two thousand years ago. More Ta'amireh visited the cave and scrolls were taken back to their encampment. They were shown to Mar Samuel of the Monastery of Saint Mark in April 1947 and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was made known. The location of the cave was not revealed for another 18 months, but eventually a joint investigation of the cave site was led by Roland de Vaux and Gerald Lankester Harding." (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves">Wikipedia</a>)
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  • This colorful little bird stopped by while we listened to our tour guide explain the Qumran site and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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