JERICHO, West Bank (AP) – Located between Jerusalem and Jericho, the Judean Desert provided an inspiration to thousands of hermits who lived here in the early Middle Ages. The arrival of electricity ...
More than 2,000 years ago, the trade of Dead Sea bitumen and salt was thriving in the Levant. Delivering them from source to market required a long and potentially hazardous journey through the Judean ...
JERUSALEM – A secretive encounter with a Bedouin (search) in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll — the first such finding in decades, an ...
A massive pyramidal monument, believed to be 2,200 years old, has been uncovered in the Judean Desert, providing new insight into the Hellenistic period. This significant discovery is the result of an ...
Mark takes a Jeep tour down into the Judean Desert, the one-time floor of the prehistoric lake Gomorrah. Mt. Sedom, located in the former lake, is mountain of salt, and a prize of ancient fortune ...
Scientists have revived a mysterious, 1,000-year-old seed discovered in the Judean Desert — and the tree that has grown from it could belong to a lost lineage mentioned in the Bible, they say. It has ...
An ancient inscription paraphrasing the first two verses of Psalm 86 has been uncovered at a remote site in Israel’s Judean desert, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said ...
A rare coin from the time of the Bar Kokhva Revolt, bearing the name of “Elazar the Priest” and dated to the first year of the revolt (132 CE), was discovered in the Mazuq Ha’heteqim Nature Reserve, ...
Riders on a Sababike tour on the Sugar Trail through the Judean Desert. Photo Credit: Tal Rozow/SabaBike At the end of our six-hour bike ride through the Judean Desert, Tal Rozow apologized to my ...
The coins that were discovered in a Judean desert cave. Evidence of a dramatic moment in the history of the Jewish people was uncovered in the Judean Desert earlier this year: a rare wooden box ...
The body of one of two missing Israeli brothers, who disappeared a week ago on a hike in the Judean wilderness, has been found at the bottom of a steep cliff. It is believed that Ophir Leibowitz, the ...