JERUSALEM -- Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale, in tiny pieces. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold ...

A Jewish artifact that was seized by the Nazis during World War II and which recently arrived in Rochester will be part of a landmark procession Thursday by B’nai Israel Synagogue. The artifact, a ...

A new image processing technique has peered into an ancient parchment scroll from Israel, allowing researchers to virtually unwrap the brittle parchment and read the text contained inside for the ...

Advances in X-ray microtomography technology originally developed for dentistry could allow historians to peer into centuries-old parchment scrolls too damaged to unroll, unlocking the secrets of the ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. History is full of ink. From Paleolithic cave paintings to parchment scrolls to printed ...

Fragments from the Dead Sea Scroll thought to be completely blank, are actually covered in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions, study reveals. Pieces of the scroll held by the University of ...

New research undertaken by researchers from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the University of York shows extracted ancient DNA from parchments can determine the development of centuries-old ...

The oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, the Dead Sea Scrolls, are now online to everyone in the world with the aid of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Google. The Dead Sea Scrolls were ...

When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...