The CAS Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society present Dr. Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina ...

Qumran was home to a strict religious community near the Dead Sea. Archaeological evidence suggests communal living and rigid rules. Many scholars associate the site with the Essenes. The group ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The scrolls were first discovered by a Bedouin shepherd inside the West Bank's caves of Qumran ...

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

Every mysterious symbol reliably matched Hebrew characters, according to researcher Emmanuel Oliveiro of the University of ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis, which paired radiocarbon ...

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 ...

A scientist believes he has cracked the writing system on the Dead Sea Scrolls after more than 70 years of mystery. The ...

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching ...

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 ravines, ...