New research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain ...

In the case of such texts, the Dead Sea Scroll fragments could be reconstructed relatively easily since the later copy formed a template into which the fragments could be fit. But hundreds of Dead ...

It was forced to return thousands of artefacts that were looted from Iraq, and admitted that several of its Dead Sea Scroll fragments were modern forgeries. An archeologist at Bar-Ilan University ...

We sat down with Prof. George Brooke, consultant on the recent project which revealed text on the Rylands Dead Sea Scroll fragments, to discuss how the fragments came to Manchester and more. Professor ...

"It's always exciting to discover a pile of tiny fragments that were basically considered ... were applied with the help of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library operated by the Israel ...

For example, the largest single category of Dead Sea text or Qumran Scrolls are text you and I call Biblical. No one is going to say the Book of Genesis was a Qumran document because fragments of ...

It held some 600 manuscripts, spread among more than 10,000 fragments. Searching for more Dead Sea Scrolls, Israeli archaeologist Oren Gutfeld peers into a cave where he found bits of ancient ...

In fact, the Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian territory meet, has famously been dying for years. Now, with war raging in the Middle East, efforts to tackle this ever ...

In fact, the Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian territory meet, has famously been dying for years. Now, with war raging in the Middle East, efforts to tackle this ever ...

An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach drawing international tourists to float in the world-famous waters of ...