The site of Khirbet Qumran (a modern Arabic name) is located in the West Bank, near the northern edge of the Dead Sea, and is where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 11 nearby caves nearly 80 years ago. Though it has been decades since any scrolls were discovered, researchers announced in February 2017 that they had found a 12th cave near Qumran.
The first settlement was created during the Iron Age, but was abandoned about 2,600 years ago, long before the scrolls were made.
