The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's land surface, with one of the world's highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a ...

EVER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies of books from the ...

From Jerusalem’s ancient streets to the shifting shores of the Dead Sea, one Israeli photographer documents a land that ...

The discovery of salt giants in the Dead Sea—formed from a perfect mixture of conditions in the terminal lake—presents a prime opportunity to study how these geological formations coalesce.

The first Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in more than a half-century, and what is possibly the world’s oldest intact basket, were among the discoveries made during a multi-year effort to thwart ...

A five-year international effort will analyze 250 scroll samples to determine where they were made. Bu the copper scroll—a ...

The motorboat cut through the aquamarine water of the Dead Sea, past dazzling-white formations forged from salt crystals. Jake Ben Zaken, the boat captain, pointed to a patch of darker water nearby ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s highest salinities. The high concentration of salt ...

A new AI-powered study aims to trace the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls using chemical and paleographic analysis.

New ERC-funded international project combines artificial intelligence and chemical analysis to trace the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are ...