The first scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a [[Bedouin]] shepherd who uncovered seven scrolls in a [[cave]]. In the following decade, further searches yielded many thousands of scroll fragments, and there are currently over 900 such documents, discovered in eleven different caves.<ref>http://www.sdnhm.org/scrolls/history.html</ref> A nearby habitation, known as [[Qumran]], was also excavated in this time in an effort to identify the people who left the scrolls in the caves. "Ten to 13 percent of the Qumran library was written in [[Aramaic]]," a language brought to the region by [[Assyria]] and [[Babylonia]] beginning around the 700s B.C.<ref>https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/places/related-articles/aramaic-literature-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls</ref> | The first scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a [[Bedouin]] shepherd who uncovered seven scrolls in a [[cave]]. In the following decade, further searches yielded many thousands of scroll fragments, and there are currently over 900 such documents, discovered in eleven different caves.<ref>http://www.sdnhm.org/scrolls/history.html</ref> A nearby habitation, known as [[Qumran]], was also excavated in this time in an effort to identify the people who left the scrolls in the caves. "Ten to 13 percent of the Qumran library was written in [[Aramaic]]," a language brought to the region by [[Assyria]] and [[Babylonia]] beginning around the 700s B.C.<ref>https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/places/related-articles/aramaic-literature-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls</ref> |