Qumran National Park is located on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. In the caves on its territory in 1947 found the famous "Dead Sea Scrolls," a historical record of pre-Christian history of the Jews, now stored in the Temple of the Book at the Israel Museum. You can see the ruins of the Essene sect of the settlement of the Second Temple: residential buildings, community halls, warehouses, an ancient aqueduct, ponds and pools for ritual washing. Nearby is the kibbutz Al-Mor, which has copies of the legendary manuscript.