Could items from the Temple be in these caves? The Qumran caves first came to the public’s attention in the pre-state Land of Israel. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a stone into a cave and ...

After Israel captured the West Bank in 1967 ... now designated Q12 to denote its inclusion in the Qumran cave complex, were a leather strap for binding scrolls and a cloth for wrapping them ...

In addition to exploring the caves and ruins, visitors can view artifacts from ancient Qumran, including tools, pottery, and ancient documents. The site is easy to get around, and takes about 1.5 ...

A cave that held Dead Sea Scrolls before they were stolen in the mid-20th century has been discovered near Qumran ... of a larger operation in which the Israel Antiquities Authority is trying ...

On Tuesday, The Times of Israel joined the Qumran expedition on the last day of its three-week winter excavation of a new cave complex. Based on results from two previous seasons, the team ...

There have been extensive excavations in the Qumran Caves since 2017, carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority in an effort to prevent looters from getting their hands on historic artifacts ...

A conservator of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA ... the manuscripts were found between 1947 and 1956 in the Qumran caves above the Dead Sea in the West Bank. The parchment and papyrus ...

Bedouin shepherds in a cave near Khirbet Qumran made this ... Do they belong to Israel (when first found, Qumran was part of Jordan), or do they belong to the Palestinians? More scrolls were ...

New interdisciplinary system, combining AI and radiocarbon dating, indicates the precious artifacts may have been written decades - or even centuries - earlier than previously believed The post New ...

Kathie Lee Gifford shares more of her recent travels in Israel, including her visit to Masada and her trip into the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered. Kathie Lee ...

It took an errant goat and an impatient herder to find the Dead Sea Scrolls hidden for 2,000 years in Qumran t took an errant ... withdrawal from Sinai, after Israel and Egypt reached a peace ...

Researchers have discovered a new cave in Israel that they say once held Dead ... that Dead Sea scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th ...