Jarvis began by recounting the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds near the ancient ...

Many people have doubted the accuracy of Biblical transmission over the ages. Claims that it no longer represents a true ...

“While some sects were accommodating themselves to the new order in various ways, the Dead Sea group decided it had to leave Jerusalem altogether in order to continue its unique way of life.

If you're planning on spending several days to a week in Jerusalem, consider taking a day trip to the Dead Sea. Located southeast of Jerusalem, along the Israel-Jordan border, the Dead Sea is the ...

Jerusalem, which literally means "The City of Peace", has a history which perhaps no other city in the world has, riven as it has been through centuries and the present geography of the city is a ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...

The exhibit is part of the ongoing “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” a traveling display of artifacts from the ancient ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones weighing hundreds of pounds each. Early returns from excavations have already ...

Moving on, the drive to the Dead Sea, next in our itinerary, began on a bright sunny day. We passed through the West Bank, occupied by Israel after the six-day war in 1967 and saw the Jewish ...