Many of the manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study that could transform our understanding of their Jewish and Christian origins.

But what has a jar in a desert cave to do with machine learning? A Bedouin shepherd who sought one of the limestone hills ...

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.

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence to ...

The famed Dead Sea Scrolls, dubbed the “greatest manuscript discovery of modern times,” arrived at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley on Friday, Nov. 15, where they were uncrated after their long trip ...

A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls—comprising more than 800 documents made of animal skin, papyrus and even forged copper—deepened our understanding of the Bible and shed light on the histories of Judaism and ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls—comprising more than 800 documents made of animal skin, papyrus and even forged copper—deepened our understanding of the Bible and shed light on the histories of Judaism and ...