For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. “Most of the Christian world, it seems to me, has heard of these famous pre-Christian scrolls, discovered in the Judean ...

The Museum of the Bible will soon host fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient artifacts in Washington, D.C. In partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the museum will display ...

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., ...

Mysterious authors penned these holy texts some 2,000 years ago, but modern archaeology is shedding new light on who they were. A Dominican Father reconstructs the text of a fragment of the Great ...

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 ...

An ancient Hebrew document created more than 1,000 years ago and stashed away in Cairo may unlock a secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Scholars of the scrolls have long wondered why so many fragments of ...

San Diego may be as close to a Dead Sea Scroll as most Arizonans will ever get. Many from the Valley are certain to travel there, starting July 1, to see what is being described as the largest, most ...