Qumran

settlement · 330 BC – 300 AD

Qumran is an archaeological site located in the West Bank near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. A Hellenistic settlement of the second century was eventually destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 68. The site is best known for the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden.

Coordinates

31.74183, 35.45941

Also known as

Chirbat Kumran (deu), Chirbet Kumran (pol), Qumran, Israel (deu), Кумран (rus), חירבת קומראן (heb), קוּמְרָאן (heb), خربة قمران (ara)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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