In the background were some of the eight students who worked with him at his pioneering lab in the tedious and exacting process of making the burnt scroll's text legible. Seales beamed "We've all been ...

The dead sea scrolls amazed scholars with their remarkable similarity to later versions. But there were also subtle differences. For instance, one scroll ... assumed was an ancient fortress ...

Comparison with other ancient writing and the studies of archaeologists ... There may be a division in the Dead Sea scroll of Isaiah, but this division, if it really is such, comes at the ...

GB: My first encounter with a Dead Sea Scroll was in 1965 when my father took me ... The finding is chiefly significant because it warns scholars that it is worth applying every technique to these ...

New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew ... The charred scroll from En-Gedi. Credit: Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library/Israel antiquities Authority ...

In the case of such texts, the Dead Sea Scroll fragments could be reconstructed relatively easily since the later copy formed a template into which the fragments could be fit. But hundreds of Dead ...

New research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of Manchester’s ... “With new techniques for revealing ancient texts now available, I felt we had to ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly ... and commentaries on many of them. "The Isaiah Scroll" is one of the most famous ...

This was proven by a team of scientists who were able to grow multiple date palms in Israel by using ancient seeds harvested ... where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

the Dead Sea owes its precarious state to both human and geological factors. Originally part of an ancient, much larger lake that extended to the Sea of Galilee, its outlet to the sea evaporated ...

For 2,000 years, a heap of large stones standing on hills overlooking the Dead Sea remained almost untouched ... bronze vessels, remains of ancient furniture, coins and textiles, has suggested ...