The Dead Sea Scrolls are returning to American shores for the first time in nearly a decade. “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” featuring scroll fragments from ancient Israel, including pieces of a ...

Experience the wonder of the Dead Sea, Earth's saltiest body of water, where floating effortlessly is a reality. Located at the lowest land elevation, its extreme salinity, nearly ten times that of ...

The Dead Sea is a salt lake located in the heart of the Middle East, on the border of Jordan and Israel, and it is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, with a salinity of over 30%. That's ...

Or, imagine a Middle Eastern white elephant built on a volatile fault line that irreparably destroys a unique desert ecosystem and the one-of-a-kind salt lake at the lowest point on earth in the ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...