In July, Ruth and I had the good fortune to be in Toronto when a great exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls was featured at the Royal Ontario Museum. The exhibit was extremely well-done, with videos of the ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence to ...

A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...

Mysterious authors penned these holy texts some 2,000 years ago, but modern archaeology is shedding new light on who they were. A Dominican Father reconstructs the text of a fragment of the Great ...