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The Dead Sea Scrolls, numbering over ____, were found in a settlement called _________.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls, numbering over 900 documents, were found in a settlement called near the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest coast of the Dead Sea.

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Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish manuscripts, most of which are written in Hebrew, some in Aramaic, and only a few in Greek.

Many of these scrolls and fragments are more than 2,000 years old and date from the time before Jesus was born. Among the first scrolls the Bedouins found were seven long, more or less damaged manuscripts.

After some more caves were searched, other scrolls and thousands of fragments were found. From 1947 to 1956, a total of 11 caves were found near Qumran, located next to the Dead Sea, in which the scrolls were stored.

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