BEST OF 2021: Forests of Judean date palm trees once covered ancient Israel, from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea. The fruit of the ... for private equity. 'Off-Map Destination' winner Wolfgat ...

Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved ...

the Dead Sea owes its precarious state to both human and geological factors. Originally part of an ancient, much larger lake that extended to the Sea of Galilee, its outlet to the sea evaporated ...

Introduction Half a century has now passed since a bedouin shepherd discovered a long-hidden cache of scrolls in a cave in cliffs above the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The details of that ...

A stone pyramid structure has just been discovered during an archaeological dig in the Judean desert. Inside were numerous written documents and the remains of remarkably well-preserved ancient ...