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Early in September 1948, Mar brought Professor Ovid R. Sellers, the new Director of ASOR, some additional scroll fragments that he had acquired.

By the end of 1948, nearly two years after their discovery, scholars had yet to locate the original cave where the fragments had been found.

With unrest in the country at that time, no large-scale search could be undertaken safely.

Sellers attempted to get the Syrians to assist in the search for the cave, but they demanded more money than he could offer.

In early 1948, the government of Jordan gave permission to the Arab Legion to search the area where the original Qumran cave was thought to be.

Consequently, Cave 1 was rediscovered on 28 January 1949, by Belgian United Nations observer Captain Phillipe Lippens and Arab Legion Captain Akkash el-Zebn.