The six wannabe tomb raiders had been well prepared. Proper abseiling gear. Portable lighting equipment. Advanced metal detectors. All were assembled for a raid on the ‘Cave of Skulls’ — one of a ...

Israeli archaeologists say the fragments are at least 2000 years old and were discovered in the Judaean Desert. The famous Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were first ...

Jerusalem, Feb 9 (PTI) Archeologists have discovered the 12th Dead Sea Scroll cave, which had hidden ancient Hebrew scriptures from the Second Temple period that were later looted by Bedouins in the ...

EVEN a scrap can be worth millions. And the words they contain can shake the world. Now Israel is launching a desperate hunt to rescue any surviving Dead Sea scrolls. A steady stream of fragments of ...

A scientist has managed to decode one of the last Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts. When some scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea in 1946, they were deemed to be approximately 2,000 to ...

Some of the most consequential religious manuscripts ever recovered were not found by archaeologists working from a research plan, but by someone looking for a missing goat. The story of how the Dead ...

A four-line ancient Aramaic inscription, possibly inked by Jewish rebels from the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans in the 2nd century CE, has been discovered in a cave in the Judean Desert, two ...

Four 1900-year-old swords, complete with wooden and leather scabbards, have been discovered in a remote cave in an Israeli desert, leading archaeologists to believe they were the booty of Jews who ...

Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists ...

THEY scaled the side of a Dead Sea cliff to slip inside the Cave of Skulls and steal the biblical scrolls. But all did not go as planned. The six wannabe tomb raiders had been well prepared. Proper ...