and were only later rediscovered and deciphered as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been found at Qumran. And new discoveries are expected even ...

Legally, all the Scrolls became the Department's property on discovery; it could later dispose of the antiquities as it wished. The original finding of Cave One at Qumran, near the Dead Sea ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible. The first of the scrolls were found in caves in Qumran on the western shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. They were reportedly ...

(Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute) Discovered between 1946 and 1956 in the Qumran Caves on the West Bank of Israel, the Dead Sea Scrolls date from third century B.C. to ...

Unlike the recent cases of forgeries assumed to be Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, all of these small pieces were unearthed in the official excavations of the Qumran caves, and were never passed through ...

The scrolls, which include the oldest known ... The first sets were found by a Bedouin in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They contain manuscripts ...

Widely considered the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 931 manuscripts found in caves near Qumran, an ancient settlement on the coast ...

Seen here as a gap high up in the cliffs of Qumran National Park in the West Bank, Cave 4 was the “mother lode” of Dead Sea Scrolls. Bedouin working at the Qumran excavations discovered the ...

(credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority) In 1949, archaeologists discovered several leather tefillin cases in a cave near Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

(This story has been updated to add the date the exhibit is expected to end.) The Dead Sea Scrolls and about 200 related artifacts are appearing in an exhibit opening Friday at the Ronald Reagan ...

and were only later rediscovered and deciphered as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been found at Qumran. And new discoveries are expected even ...