As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...

Before us, across the flat-calm Dead Sea, the sun rises over the mountains of Jordan. The heat on this spring morning is already intense. There are no trees or grass, just a few crumbling stone walls.

Scientists have uncovered a cache of ancient weapons hidden deep inside a cave in the Judean Desert, opening a window to ...

A special salty mineral discovered on the Dead Sea's Temple Scroll could be why the ancient manuscript has remained ...

Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved ...

Jarvis began by recounting the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds near the ancient settlement of Qumran, located about 13 miles from Ein Gedi. Though only 11 caves ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Yigael Yadin knew for 7 years of the existence of a certain scroll in the possession of the Syrian Kando, to whom the Bedouins, in 1947 ...

A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

New research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...