JERUSALEM (AP) -- The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist's storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was writt ...

The clay seal that still had a print on it may have belonged to Yeda‛yah, the son of a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

In a significant breakthrough, researchers have even established, for the first time, that two biblical scroll fragments, 4QDanielc (4Q114) and 4QQoheleta (4Q109), date back to the time of their ...

Aside from the Dead Sea Scrolls, which contain hundreds of religious texts and date to around 400 B.C., the En-Gedi text is the oldest Hebrew biblical tome ever found.

Dead Sea Scrolls mystery deepens as AI finds manuscripts to be much older than thought - Findings also impact our understanding of ancient political developments in Eastern Mediterranean ...

The biblical scroll examined in the study was first discovered by archaeologists in 1970 at Ein Gedi, the site of an ancient Jewish community near the Dead Sea.