JERUSALEM — The Dead Sea Scrolls, so ancient and fragile that direct light cannot shine on them, are now available to search and read online in a project launched Monday by the Israel Museum ...

At roughly 2,000 years old, the Dead Sea Scrolls are thought to be some of the earliest surviving fragments of the Old Testament. But according to a new study published in the journal PLOS One ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, ... The study claimed that the fragment of the Book of Daniel 8-11, which was thought to be dated to 160s BC, ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls is a collection of more than 900 different texts discovered in a series of 11 caves in the desert near Qumran in the mid 1940s and 1950s. ... such as the book of Psalms, ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls—comprising more than 800 documents made of animal skin, papyrus and even forged copper—deepened our understanding of the Bible and shed light on the histories of Judaism ...

E VER 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 ...

Genetic clues extracted from slivers of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls are helping to piece together related scroll remnants and reveal the diverse origins of these ancient texts, including a book of ...

Radiocarbon dating requires destroying small samples of the fragile scrolls. Normand Blouin / AFP via Getty Images. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he ...