Among the texts are nearly every book in the Old Testament. Israel Images / Alamy The caves surrounding Qumran are in the West Bank, between Israel and Jordan along the Dead Sea Guilbert Gates The ...

Subsequent to that first discovery, eleven different caves have been found at Qumran. And new discoveries are expected even now. Among the caves were found, then, thousand of fragments of ...

(credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority) In 1949, archaeologists discovered several leather tefillin cases in a cave near Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered five burials in a cave belonging to an enigmatic human lineage that suggest this group shared aspects of its lifestyle, technology and burial customs with ...

In the new research, scientists investigated caves in the Levant — the eastern Mediterranean region that today includes Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.