Discover The Dead Sea Scrolls

In 1947, by the north-western tip of the Dead Sea,
a few Bedouins accidentally stumbled upon what would turn out to be one
of the most important archaeological discoveries of the century: the
Dead Sea Scrolls. Following this initial discovery of parts of seven
scrolls, archaeologists uncovered a huge library, comprised of
thousands of scroll fragments in different states of preservation, found in eleven different caves in the vicinity of the ruins called Qumran.
The community preserving the scrolls led a segregate lifestyle at the Qumran
site from the second century B.C.E., a time at which they retreated to
this desert asylum as a result of ideological disputes with mainstream
Judaism based in the Jerusalem Temple, up to their destruction by Roman
troops in 68 C.E. the rest of the great and interesting article can be find here.