The Dead Sea Scroll fragments are the first new additions to the collection in 60 years and are thought to date back to the same period when the others were written some 2,000 to 2,300 years ago.

The latest scroll fragments were found in the Cave of Horror, which is around 80 meters (262 feet) below a cliff top in the Judean Desert. It can only be reached by abseiling from the top.

The new fragments of manuscript were found in the “Cave of Horror,” which years ago yielded up the 1,900-year-old skeletons of Jewish rebels who had fought against the Roman Empire.

They say they found a new cave that their excavations show once held Dead Sea Scrolls, making the total number of Dead Sea Scroll caves 12 instead of 11, as was previously thought.

On March 16th, Israeli researchers uncovered dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments containing biblical texts dating back nearly 2000 years. This discovery is the result of a 4-year ...

Israeli archeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.

Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping and a string used to tie the scroll were all found in the cave. It is the 12th known cave said to have contained scrolls. Dead Sea Scrolls posted online ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) This time it was a team of archaeologists, rather than a Bedouin goat herder, who made a potentially history-shaping discovery. The team found a 12th cave that they say ...

Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked parchment. These were the Dead Sea Scrolls, and researchers would eventually find a collection of nearly ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.