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• These further discoveries occur in caves all around the Dead Sea area and the Judean desert in Israel. Photographs and discussion around these discoveries were published by the Oxford University Press as the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (or DJD). They stretched to an almost complete 40 volume series, showing just how comprehensive the collection of parchments and manuscripts were.
• Other similar archaeological remains have also taken place, such as the discoveries at Nahal Hever, or Wadi al-Khabat in Arabic:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahal_Hever
• These contain two caves, The Cave of Letters, and The Cave of Horrors in which 24 human skeletons were found. These provide archaeological evidence of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, which we discussed in a separate lesson.