(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 ...

"In the cistern which is under the wall on the eastern side, at the sharp edge of the rock: six silver bars; its entrance is under the large paving-stone." Thus reads line eleven in column II of the ...

One of the less sanitary aspects of life in Jesus' day has come into play in the debate over who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, how they lived and how they died. The latest evidence comes from a site ...

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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the ...

The controversies surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls are still lively, 2,000 years after they were written, and more than half a century after they were found hidden within the caves of the Judean ...

DENVER -- It ranks right up there with movie archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones' search for the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail. Of the hundreds of Dead Sea Scrolls, only one -- found, ...

BOSTON — A decades-long debate over who once occupied a settlement located near the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found has taken a chaste turn. Analyses of 33 newly excavated skeletons of ...