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

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 ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are returning to American shores for the first time in nearly a decade. “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” featuring scroll fragments from ancient Israel, including pieces of a ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence to ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may be even older than researchers thought, according to a new study driven by an artificial intelligence (AI) model. A group of researchers from the Netherlands, Italy and ...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls gave us a glimpse into Jewish life at the time of Jesus. What insights do they provide on how his teachings took shape? Dated as early as the second century A.D., ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are surely among the most historically and biblically important objects known to humankind. Found in caves near the Dead Sea nearly 100 years ago, these ancient manuscripts have ...

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching ...

The discovery of yet another cave thought to have contained the historically significant ancient documents also turns up evidence they were stolen. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...