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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1946 and 1956 and date back 2,000 years Discovered between 1946 and 1956, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient manuscripts dating back to ...

A file photo of a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Researchers have found evidence the Biblical-era documents were once in a 12th cave, but no new fragments themselves.

A gang of robbers accused of trying to steal the Dead Sea Scrolls from a cave in the Judean Desert was indicted Sunday (Dec. 7) in Israel.

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.