An exhibition of finds from excavations at Masada and the Bar-Kochba caves will open Sunday at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Visitors to the museum will be able to see it through July 20.

I must admit that until a few weeks ago I didn’t know exactly what the Dead Sea Scrolls were. I was vaguely aware that they were old and found in a cave and somehow biblical, but that was it. But ...

Kathie Lee Gifford shares more of her recent travels in Israel, including her visit to Masada and her trip into the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered. Kathie Lee Gifford ...

Highway 90 follows the Great Rift Valley from Jerusalem down to Masada alongside what’s left of the Dead Sea, making it the lowest road on earth. On the right, sheer cliffs hide the caves of Qumran, ...

11:53, Tue, Sep 29, 2020 Updated: 14:20, Wed, Sep 30, 2020 The fragments of scrolls were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls, but experts were not able to ...

Did hundreds of Jews really commit suicide at Masada? Historian Shaye Cohen compares Josephus' account with recent archaeological evidence. From "Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, ...

Tour guides leading thousands of visitors to Masada each year follow a similar routine: Where Roman troops breached the walls, they retell Josephus Flavius’s account of how a group of obsessive, ...

Only two women and five children survived the Roman army’s attack on Masada, a mountaintop settlement in the desert where Jews fled after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Nine hundred others perished ...

Exhibition sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and shown at the Jewish Museum Oct. 12, 1967-Feb. 18, 1968; participating institutions: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and ...