At first glance, you could easily mistake this scorched, 2,000-year-old scroll for a hunk of lump charcoal. It's been burned and crushed, it crumbles at the touch, and it looks absolutely, hopelessly ...

New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment. The digitization techniques, known as "volume ...

In a significant archaeological achievement, an ancient Hebrew scroll that was burned in a fire in the distant past and was seemingly impenetrable has finally become readable— and scientists have ...

JERUSALEM – The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: ...

Scientists have made a biblical breakthrough after a badly burned ancient Hebrew scroll was made readable. Josh King has the story (@abridgetoland). Scientists have made a biblical breakthrough after ...

An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy of Old Testament Bible scripture since the Dead Sea Scrolls, researchers said ...

JERUSALEM — Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the country’s ...

Prof. A. Henry Detweiler of Cornell University, chairman of the Jerusalem Committee of the American School of Oriental Research, confirmed this week-end a report that a pair of tightly rolled bronze ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists have unveiled the earliest known nonbiblical Hebrew-language reference to Jerusalem, dating back to the time of the First Temple in the seventh century B.C. The ...