In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may be even older than researchers thought, according to a new study driven by an artificial intelligence (AI) model. A group of researchers from the Netherlands, Italy and ...

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's land surface, with one of the world's highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a ...

Priceless parchments, religious mystics, and a copper map leading to lost temple treasure. The plot of the next "Indiana ...

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., ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence to ...

Nov. 21, 2005 — -- People travel from all over the world to slather themselves in nutrient-rich mud from Israel's Dead Sea. Legend says it was the Queen of Sheba who first believed in the ...

EVER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies of books from the ...

For the first time, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library presents the world-class exhibition The Dead Sea Scrolls, featuring eight authentic Dead Sea Scrolls and over 200 artifacts from the Second ...