The scroll, made out of leather, ... Paleo-Hebrew is a form of Hebrew writing that was no longer widely used at the time the Dead Sea Scrolls were written around 2,000 years ago.

Archaeologists from the U.S. and Israel say they have found evidence that a 12th cave was used to store Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient manuscripts dating back to the time of Jesus.

Israeli researchers unveiled dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments that contained biblical texts dating back ...

Israel's Hebrew University said the ancient parchments were missing from the cave, and were probably looted by Bedouin people in the 1950s. Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping, and a ...

Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a new “Dead Sea Scroll cave,” the first such discovery in more than 60 years, according to a university press release ...

When scholars got a look at a small fragment of the seventh and last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Jordan in 1947, they discovered the name of Lamech, the father of Noah. They concluded that the ...

The nearly 25-foot-long Temple Scroll is best preserved of these ancient Hebrew texts ... Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls are written on a hybrid of parchment and leather, usually based on ...

Over the past 15 years there has been an increase in the number of Dead Sea Scroll fragments offered for sale on the private art market, said Lawrence Schiffman, professor of Hebrew and Judaic ...

The scroll, known as 4Q41, ... which makes reading the Hebrew text easier. The ink has sunk into the leather on 4Q41 but is still legible, Giller said.