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.

The calendar at the center of Qumran life offered something rare: a year that never changed its weekly rhythm. Every festival returned on the same weekday, every priestly cycle followed a fixed ...

Project Qumran seeks scientific testing of surviving samples from a 1992 Dead Sea excavation that researchers believe may be ...

The 'affair mode' phone settings that all cheaters use: I knew my partner was up to something... here's how I cracked his secret code and uncovered all his dirty antics The Dead Sea Scrolls rewrote ...

New theory offers a solution to one of the Dead Sea Scrolls' longest-running puzzles, arguing the out-of-sync calendar was ...

Although we are staying in a relatively quiet part of the Bethlehem area, a steady stream of small, personal reports reaches ...

A five-year international effort will analyze 250 scroll samples to determine where they were made. Bu the copper scroll—a ...

New ERC-funded international project combines artificial intelligence and chemical analysis to trace the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The ancient text, excluded from most Christian Bibles, describes powerful rulers facing judgement in passages interpreters ...

A five-year project will analyze 250 Dead Sea Scroll samples, while the Copper Scroll and its listed treasure sites remain beyond the study’s methods. The European Research Council awarded €2.5 ...

In 1952, archaeologists exploring the limestone cliffs above the Dead Sea made a discovery that did not fit with anything else they had found. They were excavating Cave 3 at Khirbet Qumran, the site ...