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 ...

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 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 ...

New Dead Sea Scroll cave found near Qumran, but scrolls are gone Empty storage jars and a scrap of parchment unearthed in dig carried out by Hebrew U, IAA at site apparently looted in the 1940s ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in a series of 11 caves by the archaeological site of Qumran in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were recovered from 11 caves in the West Bank between the late 1940s and the mid 1950s, after first being discovered in one cave by a shepherd.

This remnant of a casing for a two-millennia-old scroll was found in Cave 53 at Qumran and, archaeologists say, belongs to the Second Temple-period Dead Sea Scrolls, February 8, 2017.

About 1,000 Dead Sea Scrolls discovered just over 70 years ago near Khirbet Qumran on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea have been officially published since the turn of the millennium.

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 ...

Virtual Qumran Sheds New Light On Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery Site Date: June 21, 2007 Source: University of California - Los Angeles Summary: The mysterious archaeological ruins located paces from ...