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 ...

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, ...

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

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

The last secret of the Dead Sea scrolls has been cracked. The 930 texts rocked the religious community when they were found ...

JERUSALEM (KABC) -- Buried in the Israeli desert about 20 miles due east of Jerusalem lies the ancient settlement of Qumran. Built more than 100 years before the birth of Christ, wiped out in the year ...

The mysterious archaeological ruins located paces from where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered 60 years ago served first as a fortress before being adopted by a Jewish religious sect, two ...

For years, the Dead Sea Scrolls have fueled theories of encrypted messages and secret doctrines reserved for a select few. A ...

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

A more than 1,000-year-old document from a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts may explain why so many of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been uncovered in the caves of the Qumran region near the Dead ...

(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 ...