The recent excavation is part of a larger multi-year project to survey hundreds of caves and sites in the ... 2,200-year-old ‘pyramid’ near Dead Sea may have been fortress for ancient taxman ...

Jarvis began by recounting the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds near the ancient ...

Israel Images / Alamy The caves surrounding Qumran ... them throughout the Judean wilderness, including in the caves near the Dead Sea. University of Chicago Raphael Golb, the son of Norman ...

Discovered to the north of Nahal Zohar, near the Dead Sea, it overlooks an ancient crossing ... they have identified no fewer than 900 caves, overflowing with a multitude of ancient objects ...

The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the Earth. Ready for launch: “We tried to take pictures of the island from a distance, but it wasn’t even worth it,” says Braz. After a ...

This phenomenon has been widespread in the area since the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found and removed from their original caves by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s. The extreme aridity of the ...