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Dead Sea Scroll mystery may be solved by a calendar that lost touch with the seasons

The 364-day calendar did not disappear entirely. Instead, it may have survived as an ideal: a memory of perfect time at Creation and perhaps a calendar to be restored in the End of Days.

AI will crack the codes from the Dead Sea Scrolls

Artificial intelligence is opening a new chapter in Dead Sea Scrolls research. By combining machine learning with chemical analysis, scientists hope to uncover where the ancient manuscripts were produced, identify connections between scribes, and reveal hidden patterns across more than 25,000 fragments that have remained unsolved for decades.

The Masada siege lasted weeks, not the legendary years say archeologists

The Dead Sea fortress of Masada may have been seized by the Romans in weeks rather than years.

NASA tech reveals invisible scripts written on the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient handwritten fragments from every book of the Old Testament except for the Book of Esther....

Judean desert goes spectacularly green in wake of winter storms (PHOTOS)

Record rainfalls dumped on the region in this winter's storms rendered a remarkable makeover of the Judean Desert, turning it...

Dead Sea relic robbers captured at Cave of the Skulls!

Last weekend, a gang of antiquities thieves were caught in the act of cave-robbing by inspectors of the Unit for...