In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.

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

Every mysterious symbol reliably matched Hebrew characters, according to researcher Emmanuel Oliveiro of the University of ...

A portion of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

But among the scrolls they hid in caves beneath their clifftop monastery were two written in code. This was a mystic, ...

A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...

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, ...