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

A team of European archeologists using AI techniques say the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than previously known.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...

Step into the ancient settlement of Qumran, the discovery site of the Dead Sea Scrolls—one of history’s greatest archaeological finds.

This mikveh (or ritual bathing pool), uncovered in the Qumran settlement, is believed by some to be evidence that the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls were Essenes.

And why were Qumran's many ritual baths, or "miqva'ot,"so large? What are the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient texts from the Hebrew Bible found in the caves of Qumran?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at the so-called Qumran Caves - a complex of 12 caves in what was then part of Jordan but is now in the West Bank, near the Dead Sea.

Qumran Cave 1, above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, where the Great Isaiah Scroll was found in late 1946/early 1947. Dan Lundberg/CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

Rescued from the dusty interior of the Qumran Caves in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest manuscripts of the Old Testament and are a crucial piece of Biblical history that dates back to ...

He is also director of the university's Qumran Institute, dedicated to studying the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, these identifications are somewhat subjective and often hotly debated.