Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus. Yet, the amazing discovery ...

Editor’s note: In May, Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, met in Jerusalem with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, “first among equals” among the various patriarchs of 300 million Eastern ...

WASHINGTON — The Museum of the Bible's latest exhibit, “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” features the oldest copies of biblical fragments, and Matthias Walther, the museum’s chief marketing officer, ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC says five of its most valuable artifacts — all thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls — are fake and will not be displayed anymore. German-based ...

Small scraps of parchment inscribed with tiny Hebrew letters. They look like countries cut out of a map or lost pieces from a jigsaw puzzle nobody could solve. Some scholars say they're pieces of the ...

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

WASHINGTON - The Museum of the Bible - a prominent new institution off the Mall in Washington, D.C., - announced Monday that it has removed five prized items once thought to be historical Dead Sea ...

WASHINGTON -- D.C.’s Museum of the Bible made an announcement Monday about five of their artifacts kept at the museum: They’re fakes. The artifacts in question were fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

Bobby Duke spends most of his adventures as chief curatorial officer of the Museum of the Bible studying and teaching about the priceless artifacts in its collection.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a year after it opened, Washington's Museum of the Bible is admitting that at least some items in its centerpiece collection of Dead Sea Scrolls are fakes. The embarrassing ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be older than once thought, a new study suggests.According to Mladen Popović, lead author of the report published in PLOS One, the analysis used both traditional ...

The Bible Museum in Washington, D.C, says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls in its collection might be fake after the ancient documents were tested in Germany. Associated Press Less than a year after ...