If the Qumran texts were written by one such sect, the scrolls “help us to understand the forces that operated after the Maccabean Revolt and how various Jewish groups reacted to those forces,” says ...

But what has a jar in a desert cave to do with machine learning? A Bedouin shepherd who sought one of the limestone hills ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The scrolls were first discovered by a Bedouin shepherd inside the West Bank's caves of Qumran ...

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, ...

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 ...

A new study that utilizes artificial intelligence has determined that the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than archaeologists believed — a discovery that may change how scholars interpret some of the ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the most widely known archaeological finds of all time, may be older than once thought, according to a new study. The fresh analysis, which paired radiocarbon ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds and archaeologists in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert between 1946 and 1956. Since then, they have changed perceptions about Jewish, ...

(This story has been updated to add the date the exhibit is expected to end.) The Dead Sea Scrolls and about 200 related artifacts are appearing in an exhibit opening Friday at the Ronald Reagan ...

Other scholars describe Qumran variously as a manor house, a perfume manufacturing center and even a tannery. Despite decades of excavations and careful analysis, there is no consensus about who lived ...

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