For over forty years, archaeologists have longed to peek inside a badly damaged ancient scroll found on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Now an international team of scientists has managed to do so ...

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

JERUSALEM – The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: ...

But what has a jar in a desert cave to do with machine learning? A Bedouin shepherd who sought one of the limestone hills close to the Dead Sea in 1947 tossed a stone into a cave and heard it hit ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Museum of the Bible, in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority and Running Subway, is honored to announce it will host "Dead Sea Scrolls: The ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has removed five Dead Sea Scrolls from exhibits after tests confirmed these fragments were not from ancient biblical scrolls but forgeries. From the first ...

Researchers used high-tech visualization techniques to peer inside an ancient scroll too fragile to unwrap. In the 1970s, researchers unearthing an ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi, near the Dead Sea, ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

Anyone coming across the En-Gedi scroll on the sidewalk would assume it had fallen out of a Weber grill. The tiny charred manuscript is impossible to unroll without crumbling to ash. So it’s lucky ...

The Museum of the Bible announced Friday that its entire collection of "Dead Sea Scroll" fragments have been proven to be forgeries, according to tests conducted at its request. The museum housed a ...