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The Dead Sea is a salt lake in the Jordan Rift Valley, near sites where ancient manuscripts were found

Sunset over the Dead Sea from its eastern shore at Ghor Al-Haditha, Jordan, on 26 October 2018. The Judean Mountains appear on the western horizon. The photograph illustrates the lake’s geography; the Qumran manuscript caves lie elsewhere on its western side
Sunset over the Dead Sea from its eastern shore at Ghor Al-Haditha, Jordan, on 26 October 2018. The Judean Mountains appear on the western horizon. The photograph illustrates the lake’s geography; the Qumran manuscript caves lie elsewhere on its western sideRob Watson (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu) · CC BY 3.0 · CC BYLicense · Image source

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The Dead Sea is a salt lake in the Jordan Rift Valley, near sites where ancient manuscripts were found. [1]

The Dead Sea ScrollsDead Sea ScrollsJudaean Desert manuscripts, especially Qumran cave finds. Biblical copies and other works reveal textual diversity; a copy’s age is not the work’s initial date.Glossary · Click to read the explanation take their name from this region. Many came from caves near Qumran, with the famous discoveries beginning in 1947; the name does not mean the texts were found in the lake itself.

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  1. Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, identity and context: Dead Sea. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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