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 Museum of the Bible will display of the oldest copies of biblical fragments in Dead Sea Scrolls The Exhibition, which ...
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., ...
New book tries to debunk existing theory about the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. JERUSALEM, March 18, 2009— -- The Dead Sea Scrolls are the jewel in the crown of Israeli archaeology. They are ...
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 ...
A new study that utilizes artificial intelligence has determined that the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than archaeologists believed — a discovery that may change how scholars interpret some of the ...