Tag Archive for 'Judean Desert'

The 1,900-year-old Papyrus Cotton. Image credit: Shai Halevi.

1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Criminal Case from Roman Empire

Jan 28, 2025 by News Staff

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman...

Morphological features of Sheba. Image credit: Guy Eisner / Elaine Solowey / Sallon et al., doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-06721-5.

Long-Lost Myrrh Species Resurrected from 1,000-Year-Old Seed

Oct 8, 2024 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists in Israel has grown an extinct — or at least extirpated — tree species of the myrrh genus Commiphora from an ancient seed...

Archaeologists Oriya Amichay and Hagay Hamer with one of the swords found in a cave near the archaeological site of ‘Ein Gedi in Israel. Image credit: Amir Ganor, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Four Well-Preserved Roman-Era Swords Found in Israeli Cave

Sep 11, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have found four 1,900-year-old swords in a small cave located in an area of isolated and inaccessible cliffs north of the archaeological...

The new Dead Sea scroll fragments from the Cave of Horror, the Judean Desert, Israel. Image credit: Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority.

New Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found in Israel

Mar 16, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered dozens of parchment fragments of a Biblical scroll, which is written in Greek and...