A new study reveals the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than believed, with AI analysis of handwriting styles and radiocarbon dating pushing many manuscripts back to 200 B.C.

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...

Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...

E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age.

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, with some dating back to the time of their ancient authorship, scientists from the University of Groningen in the ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are even older than we thought, according to a new AI analysis by scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

An Israeli visitor at a Dead Sea hotel resort poses with mineral-rich Dead Sea mud lathered on her skin on Nov. 10. Ofir Berman for NPR But today the Dead Sea is dying, and its banks are collapsing.

“As far as I know, there are no plans now to stop the drop of the Dead Sea level. Also, the extraction of potash makes the problem even worse because the process relies on taking water from the Dead ...

The Dead Sea, one of the saltiest and most unique bodies of water on Earth, has revealed another secret. While investigating ...

A fossil reveals how a now-extinct species of dugong was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by a crocodile and a tiger shark. CNN values your feedback 1.