How do archaeologists know when to stop digging? Couldn’t there be many more dead sea scrolls if they just keep digging up more of the area?

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How do archaeologists know when to stop digging? Couldn’t there be many more dead sea scrolls if they just keep digging up more of the area?

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They didn’t “dig up” the Dead Sea Scrolls, they were sitting in a cave high on a mountain. They were found between 1947 and 1956 by local Bedouin in the caves of **Qumran**, about 20 km east of Jerusalem.

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