The Dead Sea is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water. Little if nothing can live in such high salinity. Or so ...

A special salty mineral discovered on the Dead Sea's Temple Scroll could be why the ancient manuscript has remained ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls—comprising more than 800 documents ... was home to a community of Jewish ascetics called the Essenes, who devoted their lives to writing and preserving sacred texts.

Gidon bromberg is nervous. On a sweltering August afternoon, the Israeli environmental activist leads me along the shore of the Dead Sea, watching every step we take. Towering sandstone mesas loom ...

The purpose of a mysterious pyramidal structure in the Judaean Desert is unknown, but excavators are finding many well-preserved artifacts there.

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Yigael Yadin knew for 7 years of the existence of a certain scroll in the possession of the Syrian Kando, to whom the Bedouins, in 1947 ...