MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.

A researcher has finally cracked the code of two ancient Dead Sea Scroll fragments that baffled scholars for more than 70 ...

Study comes as 'Great Isaiah,' a 24-foot-long text parchment found with the Dead Sea Scrolls, set to be displayed by the ...

The scrolls were found by accident in a series of caves near the top of the Dead Sea in the forbidding Judean desert, near the ruins of the ancient city of Qumron. A Bedouin shepherd boy searching for ...

A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...

Mysterious authors penned these holy texts some 2,000 years ago, but modern archaeology is shedding new light on who they were. A Dominican Father reconstructs the text of a fragment of the Great ...