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• 4. Long tables were found which were interpreted as tables for a 'scriptorium'.

• 5. Water cisterns were discovered which may have been used for ritual bathing.

• 6. A description by Pliny the Elder (a geographer who was writing in AD 70) of a group of Essenes living in a desert community close to the ruined town of Ein Gedi was seen by some scholars as evidence that Kirbet Qumran was in fact an Essene settlement.