Scientists in Israel just grew date palm trees from 2,000-year-old seeds, some of which were found in the Dead Sea Scroll caves. The fruit from these trees was so popular in ancient times that even ...

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 ...

the largest natural salt cave in the world, opens to the Dead Sea. But manmade versions like the one we visited, are becoming more popular. The Salt Therapy Association says the industry has grown ...

The entire collection includes 900 manuscripts comprising about 30,000 Dead Sea Scrolls fragments. The first scrolls were discovered 65 years ago in the caves of Qumran in southern Israel’s ...

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A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

a pair of squirrels who have been petrified in sea salt and stuck in a Dead Sea cave for 2,000 years. After 10-year-old Michael smuggles them home from his dad's archeological dig, the pair wake ...