One of the longest-debated mysteries involving the Dead Sea Scrolls ma finally be solved, according to Tel Aviv University ...

For decades, scholars have wondered if Qumran’s 364-day year calender had ever been used in practice or if it served only as ...

The calendar at the center of Qumran life offered something rare: a year that never changed its weekly rhythm. Every festival ...

The vast majority of material was lost after a 2025 murder. All that remains is a small amount of dust collected from the floor and a few samples preserved by the Jones family.

A Bedouin huntsman and his dog, climbing on rocky mountainous cliffs above the Dead Sea, spotted a likely prey. The dog chased it into the mouth of a cave where inside, the Bedouin discovered jars ...

The scrolls, discovered starting in 1947, include the oldest known copies of large portions of the Hebrew Bible.

Those who make a great show of being religiously pure often lead lives that are secretly very dirty -- or at least so it was in biblical times. Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead ...

For decades, scholars have wondered if Qumran’s 364-day year calender had ever been used in practice or if it served only as a theoretical framework. A solution to one of the historical mysteries ...