(The Christian Science Monitor) This time it was a team of archaeologists, rather than a Bedouin goat herder, who made a potentially history-shaping discovery. The team found a 12th cave that they say ...

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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 ...

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University’s School of Science have developed a computer tool that could facilitate the complex study of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. The 2,000-year-old scrolls were ...

The famed Dead Sea Scrolls, dubbed the “greatest manuscript discovery of modern times,” arrived at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley on Friday, Nov. 15, where they were uncrated after their long trip ...

A scientist has managed to decode one of the last Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts. When some scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea in 1946, they were deemed to be approximately 2,000 to ...

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible. Deuteronomy Display: A facsimile of the 4Q41 Deuteronomy scroll, an ancient ...

Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists ...

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A four-year effort by Israeli archaeologists searched 500 caves near the Dead Sea. In addition to ancient parchments and papyri, they found an... Archaeologists Discover Additional Dead Sea Scroll ...