A Bedouin huntsman and his dog, climbing on rocky mountainous cliffs above the Dead Sea, spotted a likely prey. The dog chased it into the mouth of a cave where inside, the Bedouin discovered jars ...

BBC presenter Roger Bolton travelled to Qumran - an ancient village on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, 13 kilometres east of Jerusalem - to record Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited for BBC Radio 4.

Today Qumran is yielding up those secrets while the world looks on in fascination and awe. For the people of the Dead Sea Community who are appearing through the mists of the past are closer than ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. At ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

One of the less sanitary aspects of life in Jesus' day has come into play in the debate over who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, how they lived and how they died. The latest evidence comes from a site ...

Since the first discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the faded parchments of Qumran have provided extraordinary insights into the nature of Judaism at the time when Christianity was born. Now, ...

BOSTON — A decades-long debate over who once occupied a settlement located near the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found has taken a chaste turn. Analyses of 33 newly excavated skeletons of ...