Step into the ancient settlement of Qumran, the discovery site of the Dead Sea Scrolls—one of history’s greatest ...

Yr-Old Cryptic Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal a Very Advanced 364-Day Solar Calendar Used by Ancient Priests A groundbreaking ...

It is in that rugged cliff face, on the banks of the Dead Sea, in this arid, desolate climate, that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the site known as Khirbet Qumran. The Scrolls were ...

“The big story is that they found another piece of evidence that the residents of Qumran, whoever they were, could manufacture scrolls,” says Cargill, “not that they found a Dead Sea Scrolls ...

The first of the scrolls were found in caves in Qumran on the western shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. They were reportedly first discovered by a young Bedouin shepherd searching for lost sheep.

Members of the separatist Qumran sect likely stashed the scrolls in the cave around A.D. 70, as Roman troops closed in to crush the First Jewish Revolt. Hundreds more scrolls eventually would come ...

Unlike the recent cases of forgeries assumed to be Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, all of these small pieces were unearthed in the official excavations of the Qumran caves, and were never passed through ...

Widely considered the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 931 manuscripts found in caves near Qumran, an ancient settlement on the coast ...

The Babylonian text known as Qumran scroll ‘4Q318’and kept at the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, is thought to have been written around 2000 years ago. Shown by Dr Jacobus to be a calendar ...

The scrolls, which include the oldest known version ... The first sets were found by a Bedouin in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

It is in that rugged cliff face, on the banks of the Dead Sea, in this arid, desolate climate, that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the site known as Khirbet Qumran. The Scrolls were ...