The Dead Sea Scrolls are now in Philadelphia. The ancient texts, written in Hebrew on parchment and stored in clay jars for two millennia, reveal much about the origins of Judaism. In the traveling ...

In 1947, in a cave one mile west of the Dead Sea, a Bedouin shepherd stumbled upon large clay jars filled with ancient scrolls. A series of further excavations of the neighboring caves by ...

A new exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the world's oldest known biblical manuscripts, opens at the California Science Center in Los Angeles today. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written 2,000 years ago ...

In 1947 in the steep, rocky cliffs of the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a 14-year-old Bedouin ... and the goatherd recognized the sound of a clay jar cracking. The next day, he returned with ...

A team of MIT scientists studied a fragment of one of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls and found ... roughly 900 full and partial scrolls in all, stored in clay jars—were first discovered scattered ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has removed five Dead Sea Scrolls from exhibits after tests confirmed these fragments were not from ancient biblical scrolls but forgeries. From the ...

The discovery of a twelfth cave associated with the famous Dead Sea Scrolls may arm ... cave had once harbored a collection of scrolls stored in clay jars, but looters had made off with the ...

In the winter of 1947, a young shepherd discovered a cave containing clay ... thousand scrolls were discovered in the network of caves, and they were collectively designated The Dead Sea Scrolls.