sort the fragments according to the Qumran caves where each was originally found, and view those locations on Google Maps. “This is part of Google’s mission — to make all of the world’s ...

Qumran is a small settlement on the west shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby. The archaeology of this settlement sheds light on the Jewish community that lived here and ...

What followed were excited excavations in the caves where the scrolls were found, and at Qumran, an ancient settlement below the cliffs. By the late 1950s archeologists working at Qumran had ...

The Qumran National Park is famous for being the site where the oldest Biblical manuscripts, known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, were found by a Bedouin shepherd. Even though the manuscripts have since ...

Nahal Qumran, winter 2022: my first flash flood in Israel. We hike toward the desert canyon, then continue up to a picturesque spot overlooking a deep gorge. We stop and eat breakfast there ...

And, lest you have visions of Indy Jones, they've spent the last 10 years quietly excavating at Qumran, where the Dead Sea scrolls were found in 1947. But in the past month Peleg and Magen have ...