A special salty mineral discovered on the Dead Sea's Temple Scroll could be why the ancient manuscript has remained relatively so well-preserved for 2,000 years.

Scientists have uncovered a cache of ancient weapons hidden deep inside a cave in the Judean Desert, opening a window to ...

We’ve highlighted attractions in and around the deepest hypersaline ... located on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the Judean Desert. The historic village was established during ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly ... So here's a group that went out in the desert to prepare the way of the Lord ...

leaving a salty residue in a desert basin at the lowest point on earth—1,300 feet below sea level. Since then, this body of water, known as the Dead Sea since Greco-Roman times, has maintained ...

Tour guides shepherding the tourists through the modest desert ... post around 100 B.C.,” he says. “We are one day from Jerusalem, and it fortified the northeast shore of the Dead Sea.” ...

The bodies of a mother and son who went missing while on holiday in Petra, Jordan, have been discovered after flash flooding decimated the historic desert city ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly ... So here's a group that went out in the desert to prepare the way of the Lord ...