Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus.Yet, the amazing discovery is ...

Up until now, Tigchelaar has stressed, the chronology of the Dead Sea Scrolls — a collection of approximately 1,000 scrolls dating between the 3rd century BCE and 1st century CE — has been ...

A fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls is shown at the Israel Antiquities Authority laboratory in Jerusalem, June 2, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) John J. Miller is joined by Jodi Magness of the ...

The scrolls contain approximately 15,000 pieces from Cave 4 alone, making it the “mother lode” of Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, and Cave 7 yielded a significant collection of Greek texts.

New book tries to debunk existing theory about the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. JERUSALEM, March 18, 2009— -- The Dead Sea Scrolls are the jewel in the crown of Israeli archaeology. They are ...

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 ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls Hit Google Google has already placed millions of books and historic documents online. Now, thanks to some generous external funding and intra-institutional wrangling, it's the ...

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 ...