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 ...

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

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

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

When some scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea in 1946, they were deemed to be approximately 2,000 to 2,300 ...

One of the last undeciphered Dead Sea Scrolls has been decoded, revealing biblical phrases and themes about the end of days.

Plastic waste carried by flash floods has built up along the Dead Sea’s shrinking shore, creating natural rings that reveal decades of growing pollution. For more than two decades, plastic waste ...

In 1947, a chance discovery by Bedouin shepherds uncovered a library frozen in time — the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts on Earth. But who wrote them? Most scholars point ...

An archaeologist has announced a remarkable finding at the International Research Seminar, History of the Caves of Qumran, which was held in Lugano, Switzerland – nine scrolls dating back 2,000 years ...

A team of experts have made an important discovery about some Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the United Kingdom. They have found letters on four fragments that were believed to be ‘blanks’. This finding ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Museum of the Bible, in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority and Running Subway, is honored to announce it will host "Dead Sea Scrolls: The ...