The museum also put away Mark Rothko’s “Number 24 (Untitled).” REUTERS. The Dead Seas Scrolls, first discovered in 1947 in the West Bank, are among the most precious historical and religious ...

These were the Dead Sea Scrolls, and researchers would eventually find a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient scrolls in nearby caves. At roughly 2,0 ...

New research using an AI model named Enoch suggests the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously thought, dating many to around 200 B.C. instead of 150-50 B.C.

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, with some dating back to the time of their ancient authorship, scientists from the University of Groningen in the ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are 2,000 years old and very sensitive to direct light. At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where they are housed, the scrolls are rotated every few months to minimize the damage.

Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus.Yet, the amazing discovery is ...

The first Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1946 and 1947 in the Qumran caves in the Judean desert. Further scrolls were found in subsequent years, through to 1956. In total, 1,000 ancient ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC says five of its most valuable artifacts – once thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls – are fake and will not be displayed anymore.

“You can’t love archaeology without loving the Dead Sea Scrolls,” said Joe Uziel, head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at the IAA. “These are texts that give you a connection to people from ...

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 ...

Norman Golb, Dead Sea Scrolls Contrarian, Is Dead at 92 He challenged the conventional wisdom about a major archaeological discovery. He also led a successful effort to open it for study by a wide ...