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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stone pyramid structure has just been discovered during an archaeological dig in the Judean desert. Inside were numerous written documents and the remains of remarkably well-preserved ancient ...

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 ...