Qumran is in the West Bank — territory Israel captured from Jordan during the 1967 Middle East War — which Palestinians say will be part of their future state.

Eight newly installed Dead Sea Scrolls, including a rare manuscript outlining the beliefs and structure of the ancient Qumran ...

Qumran is a small settlement on the west shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby. The archaeology of this settlement sheds light on the Jewish community that lived here and ...

On Tuesday, The Times of Israel joined the Qumran expedition on the last day of its three-week winter excavation of a new cave complex. Based on results from two previous seasons, the team, led by ...

The Judean desert in the vicinity of the Qumran caves, on the west coast of the Dead Sea, is bleak, dusty, hot and barren. Little life stirs here.

New skeletal evidence could put decades-old debate over Qumran settlers to rest Archaeologists’ study appears to confirm theory rooted in ancient texts that the Essenes, a strictly socialist ...

Qumran is best known for being the discovery site of the Dead Sea Scrolls, located on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the Judean Desert. The historic ...

Visiting Qumran, Tabor noted an area approximately 500 meters to the northwest of the settlement which seemed likely because it was sheltered from view by a bluff.

At Qumran, on the other hand, among the Dead Sea Scrolls, we hear not of just one Messiah, but at least two Messiahs. Some of their writings talk about a Messiah of David that is a kind of kingly ...

Norman Golb, a University of Chicago professor who first argued in 1994 that the scrolls could have been written elsewhere, says Jews from Jerusalem, 20 miles away, probably hid them at Qumran so ...