The water levels in the Dead Sea have been dropping over the past several years due to drought, water use, and other factors.

In this way, all the fragments were eventually acquired ... More than two hundred Dead Sea documents were books of the Hebrew Bible. These varied in size from a tiny scrap to a complete book ...

If you're planning on spending several days to a week in Jerusalem, consider taking a day trip to the Dead Sea. Located southeast of Jerusalem, along the Israel-Jordan border, the Dead Sea is the ...

The Dead Sea is a paradoxical place. A large, terminal lake, not a sea, it lies at the lowest point on earth. The Jordan flows in, but no river flows out. It’s full of undrinkable water ...

These are texts that all Jews would have had, all Jews would have read. For example, the largest single category of Dead Sea text or Qumran Scrolls are text you and I call Biblical. No one is ...

Step into the ancient settlement of Qumran, the discovery site of the Dead Sea Scrolls—one of history’s greatest ...

A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

A US Bible museum has removed fragments of what it believed were part of the Dead Sea Scrolls from display, after tests suggested they were forgeries. The Museum of the Bible, in Washington DC ...

a volunteer with Chennai-based Students Sea Turtles Conservation Network. “This year, we've already crossed 200 dead turtles in a little more than two weeks,” he said. Krishnan is also ...