MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.

When some scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea in 1946, they were deemed to be approximately 2,000 to 2,300 ...

Qumran was home to a strict religious community near the Dead Sea. Archaeological evidence suggests communal living and rigid rules. Many scholars associate the site with the Essenes. The group ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) This time it was a team of archaeologists, rather than a Bedouin goat herder, who made a potentially history-shaping discovery. The team found a 12th cave that they say ...

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In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

In the rocky cliffs of Wadi Qumran, near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Virginia's Liberty University unearthed a remarkable discovery.

Parchment that archaeologists say was being processed for writing, found in the newly discovered cave believed to have contained Dead Sea Scrolls. Archaeologists from the U.S. and Israel say they have ...

A portion of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the ...

But among the scrolls they hid in caves beneath their clifftop monastery were two written in code. This was a mystic, ...

A four-year effort by Israeli archaeologists searched 500 caves near the Dead Sea. In addition to ancient parchments and papyri, they found an... Archaeologists Discover Additional Dead Sea Scroll ...