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ZEV RADOVAN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

DESERT LIFE (AND DEATH). This aerial view over Khirbet Qumran shows the excavated features of the main settlement, which dates to the first century BCE/CE, perched on a low ridge overlooking the Wadi Qumran where some of the caves that held the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. About 50 yards east of the settlement is the Qumran cemetery that includes more than a thousand graves. Two of the excavated graves contained mysterious jar burials.