Archaeologists in southern Jordan have uncovered the long-lost Byzantine city of Tharais, tucked away on the southeast coast ...

The archaeological site of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian settlement of Tharais - lost for centuries - has been found in Jordan using the Madaba Mosaic Map as a guide ...

Now, the team hopes to study ancient DNA in even more of the scrolls — at least the ones that they can sample. "There are 25,000 fragments and we could only sample a few," Rechavi said.

Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed: How Scientists Cracked the Secrets of the Mystery Texts Published Feb 21, 2018 at 4:51 AM EST Updated Feb 21, 2018 at 6:47 AM EST ...

Archaeologists recovered thousands of fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls from 11 caves near the ancient settlement of Khirbat Qumran, in what is now the West Bank. - V. Giannella/De Agostini/Getty Images ...

To search for clues of ancient life in the Dead Sea, a team of scientists led by Camille Thomas, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Geneva, drilled more than 1,000 feet into the sediments below.

After decades of work, one of the final two encrypted Dead Sea Scrolls that had resisted efforts to decipher its meaning has at last been decoded, revealing an ancient Jewish calendar.

Photo shows a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The University of Manchester Of the 51 fragments imaged, four were found to have readable Hebrew/ Aramaic text written using carbon-based ink.

Archeologists unearth tiny fragments of 2,000-year-old biblical texts, The Dead Sea Scrolls Israeli archaeologists announced this week the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments.