This was once the beachside resort at En Gedi, Israel, where families would come to float in the ultra-salty lake at the bottom of the world. Now it's a disaster zone, too dangerous to enter.

Click on the video to see a place saturated not only in natural beauty but also 5,000 years of archeological history. Ein Gedi is where the future King David took refuge from mad King Saul, and ...

When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue's Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ...

West of the Dead Sea lies Ein Gedi National Park, an area with terrain similar to that of San Diego. A beautiful, arid mountainous region, Ein Gedi is how I pictured all of Israel. With rocky ...

My beloved to me is a spray of henna blooms from the vineyards of Ein Gedi (Song of Songs 1:14) Prior to our recent trip to the Dead Sea and Ein Gedi, we hadn’t visited the area in years. In the ...

The scroll was unearthed in 1970 in archaeological excavations in the synagogue at En Gedi in Israel, headed by Dan Barag and Ehud Netzer of the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew University, ...

No one can say with certainty why the flourishing Jewish settlement at Ein Gedi abruptly ended sometime in the sixth century. We know that a conflagration destroyed the community's handsome ...

Archaeologists have found four Roman swords and a shafted weapon known as a pilum dating from 1,900 years ago in a cave near the shore of the Dead Sea in Israel.