because people think it may be a treasure map of their own holdings. Who were the Essenes? The Dead Sea Scrolls are usually thought to have been produced by a group known as the Essenes.

Introduction Half a century has now passed since a bedouin shepherd discovered a long-hidden cache of scrolls in a cave in cliffs above the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The details of that ...

Step into the ancient settlement of Qumran, the discovery site of the Dead Sea Scrolls—one of history’s greatest archaeological finds. Carrie Underwood Speaks Out About Performing At Trump's ...

A groundbreaking discovery revealed the successful decoding of one of the last remaining Dead Sea Scrolls, which contained an ancient priestly calendar used by a Jewish sect over 2000 years ago ...

If you guessed no, then guess again. According to the recent finds of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, the documents and scripts indicated otherwise. In light of our current exhibition, Temple, Scrolls ...

The discovery means that The University of Manchester is the only institution in the UK to possess authenticated textual fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The study was undertaken as part of a ...

Most visitors come for the legendary Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 texts, which are believed to have been written between 150 and 70 B.C. The scrolls are displayed—along with other ...