The Qumran cisterns reveal a community devoted to purity, faith, and obedience to Jehovah through advanced water engineering in the Judean wilderness.
The Wadi Qumran Cistern Complex — c. 100–50 B.C.E.
The Jericho Palaces of the Hasmoneans — c. 140–30 B.C.E.
The Hasmonean palaces of Jericho reveal the rise, splendor, and spiritual decline of a Jewish dynasty that bridged priestly purity and royal power.
