Oldest Copy of Ten Commandments Goes on Display
A 2,000-year-old copy of the Ten Commandments believed to be the oldest in existence is going on display at a Jerusalem museum, reports the Jewish Press . This particular version showed up in one of...
View ArticleScroll So Charred It Looks Like Charcoal Finally Read
When a 1,500-year-old scroll was found in the ashes of an ancient synagogue on the shores of the Dead Sea just south of Jerusalem in 1970, it was so charred it resembled a piece of charcoal and was...
View ArticleDead Sea Scrolls Cave Discovered, but Someone Got There First
Israeli researchers have discovered what they believe is the first new Dead Sea Scrolls cave uncovered in more than 60 years—but looters got there long before them. The site at the Qumran cliffs, an...
View ArticleOne of Dead Sea Scrolls' Last Puzzles Is Cracked
Israeli researchers say they have deciphered one of the last remaining puzzles of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It turns out the ancient authors of this particular section were writing about the changing of...
View ArticleBible Museum Makes Embarrassing Announcement
Less than a year after it opened, Washington's Museum of the Bible is admitting that at least some items in its centerpiece collection of Dead Sea Scrolls are fakes. The embarrassing announcement...
View ArticleThese Dead Sea Scrolls Turn Out to Be Fakes
It would be more accurate to call the "Dead Sea Scrolls" at a museum in Washington, DC, the "Old Sandal Fakes," researchers say. A team of art fraud experts spent six months analyzing the supposed...
View ArticleWriting Discovered on 'Blank' Dead Sea Scroll Fragments
In the 1950s, Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank were given to a British leather expert so he could study their chemical composition. Almost 70 years later, a professor has discovered they...
View ArticleNew Dead Sea Scrolls Found in 60-Year First
"The Cave of Horror" has given up a new wonder: the first fragments of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls found in 60 years. Israeli archeologists have been combing the caves and ravines of the Judean Desert...
View ArticleAI Finds What Humans Can't on Longest Dead Sea Scroll
Looking at the 24-foot-long Great Isaiah Scroll, the longest of 950 discovered Dead Sea scrolls, you'd assume it made someone's hand very, very tired. But the "near uniform" Hebrew script on the...
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