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 ...

Who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls? Science may have the answer Mysterious authors penned these holy texts some 2,000 years ago, but modern archaeology is shedding new light on who they were.

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, with some dating back to the time of their ancient authorship, scientists from the University of Groningen in the ...

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.

New technologies unravel the Dead Sea Scrolls’ mysteries and uncover million-dollar fakes.

Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus.Yet, the amazing discovery is ...

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 ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls -- documents found mostly in the 1950s in caves just northwest of the Dead Sea -- collectively constitute the most extensive account of religious life in this era.

Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought? Combining radiocarbon dating and a new AI program called Enoch yields surprising results.

A team of European archeologists using AI techniques say the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than previously known.