(The Christian Science Monitor) This time it was a team of archaeologists, rather than a Bedouin goat herder, who made a potentially history-shaping discovery. The team found a 12th cave that they say ...
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‘Impossible’ Dead Sea Scrolls extract is FINALLY cracked – revealing ancient 2,000-year-old message
MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Changed Our Understanding of the Bible. Could Some of Them Be Even Older Than We Thought?
In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...
A portion of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the ...
In the rocky cliffs of Wadi Qumran, near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Virginia's Liberty University unearthed a remarkable discovery.
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The scrolls were first discovered by a Bedouin shepherd inside the West Bank's caves of Qumran ...
A scientist believes he has cracked the writing system on the Dead Sea Scrolls after more than 70 years of mystery. The ...
A scientist has decoded a previously unreadable Dead Sea Scroll manuscript. The ancient text, found near the Dead Sea, ...
Parchment that archaeologists say was being processed for writing, found in the newly discovered cave believed to have contained Dead Sea Scrolls. Archaeologists from the U.S. and Israel say they have ...
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 ...
A four-year effort by Israeli archaeologists searched 500 caves near the Dead Sea. In addition to ancient parchments and papyri, they found an... Archaeologists Discover Additional Dead Sea Scroll ...
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