A sprawling compound shows that the area’s (sometimes gruesome) history, tied to an ancient Jewish sect, extends well beyond the caves made famous in 1947 Share In 1947, a goat wandered into a cave in ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. At ...

JERUSALEM (KABC) -- Buried in the Israeli desert about 20 miles due east of Jerusalem lies the ancient settlement of Qumran. Built more than 100 years before the birth of Christ, wiped out in the year ...

Excavations in the cliffs of Qumran, by the north-west shore of the Dead Sea, have revealed a 12th cave believed to have concealed the Dead Sea Scrolls, an ancient collection of religious texts. The ...

Kathie Lee Gifford shares more of her recent travels in Israel, including her visit to Masada and her trip into the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered. Kathie Lee Gifford ...

It has been debated for centuries, but scholars think they are one step closer to discovering who wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls. The world's oldest known biblical documents may have been penned by a sect ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the ...

Nine newfound penny-sized pieces of parchment believed to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been found in Israel. The scrolls went unnoticed for almost 60 years until one scholar came across them ...

(JNS) The Qumran caves in the Judean Desert have continued to yield amazing and unexpected treasures. To date, the following have been discovered: 1) The Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old parchments ...