In a basement laboratory of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, an X-ray scanner is pumping invisible beams into a clump of charred parchment leaves that looks as delicate as a long dead flower ...

According to Bar-Ilan University's Joshua Berman, who curated the new hagaddah ‘Echoes of Egypt,' the biblical narrative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new set of Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient fragments of biblical texts dating back almost 2,000 years and thought to have been hidden ...

Rescued from the dusty interior of the Qumran Caves in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest manuscripts of the Old Testament and are a crucial piece of Biblical history that dates back to the ...

Archaeologists have used radiocarbon dating to uncover the truth behind events referenced in Biblical texts regarding an ancient Levantine city. Researchers studied the radiocarbon dates of 35 organic ...

Across ancient civilizations, certain stories appear again and again—from floods and divine births to rulers chosen by destiny. When comparing Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian texts, and biblical ...

(NBC) -- Fragments of biblical text are among the latest discovery of parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Israeli archaeologists have unveiled a trove of new artifacts from the scrolls, the first such find ...

Texts from the ancient Near East tell of powerful neighbors—Egyptians, Arameans, Assyrians, and Babylonians—attacking the lands of Israel and Judah. Some archaeological ruins align neatly with these ...

A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against Israel has been verified using a novel archaeological approach based on reconstructing the Earth's geomagnetic field from points in ...

Scientists have found a long-lost “hidden chapter” of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was first written. The lost section represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, ...

The inky wretch never teased me about anything, but he did think it was funny when I decided to read the Bible straight through. "It's not Jane Austen," he told me.