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Cave of Letters
Cave south of Qumran with artifacts including scrolls, pottery, coins and bronze objects.
Jewish rebel commanders, and their families, who sought refuge in the cave near the end of the Second Jewish Revolt against the Romans (~135 C.E.) left these objects.
70 documents in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek were discovered in the cave. About a dozen letters bore the name of Bar-Kokhba, leader of the Second Jewish revolt
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