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 written ...

In a significant archaeological achievement, an ancient Hebrew scroll that was burned in a fire in the distant past and was seemingly impenetrable has finally become readable— and scientists have ...

JERUSALEM – Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale — in tiny pieces. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold ...

The first time Rabbi Mendel Ceitlin saw an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls, he was in high school. His youth, however, didn't keep the future rabbi from becoming captivated with the ancient ...

Scientists have made a biblical breakthrough after a badly burned ancient Hebrew scroll was made readable. Josh King has the story (@abridgetoland). Scientists have made a biblical breakthrough after ...

The ancient scrolls revealed texts dating to the centuries before and during the time of Jesus, offering a rare glimpse into ...

It’s a scandal of biblical proportions. All 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments displayed in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., are fake, the museum announced Friday in a press release. The fake ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

The book of Esther is a part of both the Jewish and Christian religious canons, referenced in rabbinic literature in the second century A.D and believed to have been written in the early centuries B.C ...

JERUSALEM — 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 written inside: ...