In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd unearthed the first of nearly 900 texts that would come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. They were found in a series of 11 caves near Qumran, Israel (shown here). First ...

A sprawling compound shows that the area’s (sometimes gruesome) history, tied to an ancient Jewish sect, extends well beyond the caves made famous in 1947 Share In 1947, a goat wandered into a cave in ...

A more than 1,000-year-old document from a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts may explain why so many of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been uncovered in the caves of the Qumran region near the Dead ...

Kathie Lee Gifford shares more of her recent travels in Israel, including her visit to Masada and her trip into the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered. Kathie Lee Gifford ...

JERUSALEM (KABC) -- Buried in the Israeli desert about 20 miles due east of Jerusalem lies the ancient settlement of Qumran. Built more than 100 years before the birth of Christ, wiped out in the year ...

Excavations in the cliffs of Qumran, by the north-west shore of the Dead Sea, have revealed a 12th cave believed to have concealed the Dead Sea Scrolls, an ancient collection of religious texts. The ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the ...

It has been debated for centuries, but scholars think they are one step closer to discovering who wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls. The world's oldest known biblical documents may have been penned by a sect ...

(JNS) The Qumran caves in the Judean Desert have continued to yield amazing and unexpected treasures. To date, the following have been discovered: 1) The Dead Sea Scrolls, 2,000-year-old parchments ...

Nine newfound penny-sized pieces of parchment believed to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been found in Israel. The scrolls went unnoticed for almost 60 years until one scholar came across them ...

QUMRAN, Israel, May 12 (UPI) -- Israeli officials said at least three hikers drowned Saturday in flashfloods near the archeological site of Qumran in the Judean Desert. Rescue crews were scouring the ...

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