Similar tombs have also been found at Ein el-Ghuweir, 17 of which have been excavated. These held the remains of 13 men and 6 women. See Pesach Bar Adon, Another Settlement of the Judean Desert Sect at Ein el-Ghuweir on the Shores of the Dead Sea, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 225 (1977), p. 2. At Hiam El-Sagha, in the Judean Desert, some 20 shaft tombs were surveyed, 2 of which were excavated. See Hanan Eshel and Zvi Greenhut, Hiam El-Sagha: A Cemetery of the Qumran Type, Judean Desert, Revue biblique 100102 (1993), p. 252.
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