The John and Carol Merrill Qumran Excavations Project of 2001, a joint project between the University of Hartford, Bar Ilan University and California State University, Long Beach, did a systematic reassessment of the cemetery of Qumran in July, 2001, with important insights on the relationship between the Qumran site, the cemetery and perhaps the caves. The first part of the paper will review the historical understandings of the cemetery from the 19th century through the de Vaux and Steckoll excavations. The second part will review the work done in the summer of 2001. Since part of the mandate of the license for this project allowed for an evaluation of already excavated graves and an assessment of other anomalies in the cemetery, the paper will analyze some new findings from the excavated graves and relate it to excavations which were conducted during December, 2002 in the area adjacent to the cemetery. The final part of the paper will examine some of the interpretations of the cemetery's relationship to the Qumran site and caves, and then propose a variety of new insights on the relationship between the cemetery, Qumran and information in the Scrolls.