We learned that the Essenes were a Jewish religious group that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. They had The Manual of Discipline that called for a full communal life: "they shall eat, bless and take counsel communally".
On the west side of the building (now in ruins) was a long room that used to be a dining room. It had a small adjacent room were a thousand of ceramic vessels were unearthed.
Flour mills, a stable, a laundry and various workshops were also uncovered. Near the settlement is a large cemetery (separated by a wall).
The Ritual Bath . . . the community strictly observed the laws of ritual purity.
Looking into the ritual bath hole . . .
The Cistern . . . a deep circular cistern was found at Qumran, and may be the site known as the Biblical City of Salt . . .
Constructed were a building, a library and two pottery kilns. Below is the remains of The Kiln . . .
In approximately 130 BCE, the occupants constructed two rectangular cisterns. A closer look inside the deep cistern . . .
Qumran National Park sign saying that "one has entered an archaeological site and not to damage or remove any of the antiquities (however, this lady does seem antique in a way, lol).
At the site of the Qumran ruins were remains of walls and pottery.
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank. It is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea.
Two Bedouin shepherds accidentally came across a clay jar in a cave near Khirbet Qumran that contained seven parchment scrolls. The settlement of Qumran is one kilometer inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The scrolls were found in eleven caves nearby.Source: Wikipedia
So many things are out there for you and I to discover.
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