Some of the most consequential religious manuscripts ever recovered were not found by archaeologists working from a research ...

Hidden in caves near the Dead Sea, thousands of ancient fragments would become one of the most important archaeological ...

The Qumran system differed sharply from the lunisolar calendar that structured Jewish life during the Second Temple period. Its year contained exactly 364 days, a number divisible by seven, producing ...

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 ...

EVER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies of books from the ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...

June 7 (UPI) --The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls likely are much older than originally thought, a new artificial intelligence analysis suggests. The scrolls could be centuries older than initially thought, ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis, which paired radiocarbon ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be older than once thought, a new study suggests. According to Mladen Popović, lead author of the report published in PLOS One, the analysis used both traditional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scroll conservationist Tanya Bitler displays parchment biblical fragments and a scroll section discovered by the Israel ...